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After that, we will have the debate.If members want to question the officials who are here to assist the minister, they must do so during the question-and-answer session, because only MSPs can take part in the formal debate.
For example, the minute that Esther Roberton's appointment to the head of SFEFC was announced, MSPs made major criticisms in the press that the only reason that she had been appointed was because she had been a member of the Labour party.
It is not always possible to get to grips with the detail of what an MSP proposes. That was the danger, rather than a private health danger that resulted from something that proper practices ought to be able to deal with.
John McAllion makes the valuable point that all MSPs can attend committees—I am sure that members from outwith this committee will want to attend discussions on the housing bill and I suspect that we have not seen the last of certain members.
I am not dissenting from the point that Fiona Hyslop has made, but my wish would be—I am not a Borders MSP, so I do not want to talk out of turn—to see employment growth in the Borders.