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The Parliament should be reminded that allowing such projects blights people's homes and cities and ultimately reflects on MSPs themselves. Those MSPs represent the people who will ultimately pick up the cost of the system.
I welcome to the committee Robert Brown MSP, who is a member of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, Paul Curran, who is the head of the Holyrood project team, and Dave Ferguson, who is the Holyrood project adviser.
Nothing further has happened, although the committee made some recommendations that further action should be taken.I have been involved with the Carbeth hutters, as have other MSPs. There is an update on the situation at paragraph 7 of the paper.
When I talked about training within the Parliament, I said that it must apply to MSPs as well as to staff. Equally, we need to bring elected members up to speed on equalities issues, just as we need to bring staff up to speed.
Labour members are happy for it to go to Midlothian, which has a Labour MSP, but they will ditch their Liberal Democrat partners now as they are not happy with them.
In the recent past, I have given evidence to the European and External Relations Committee and I have written to every MSP detailing the Executive's plans.