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I also welcome Richard Lochhead MSP, who is here for the evidence-taking session with Scottish Enterprise—any member of the Scottish Parliament can participate in committee meetings and ask questions.
In the months ahead, my officials and I will seek to be available to MSPs. The difficulties in the scheme are simply not an issue in large swathes of the country, but they are a matter of continuing concern to MSPs in other areas.
The committee appears to acknowledge that such schools have a place, but there is no definition of a national role or clarity about MSPs' expectations of those schools. It is important to examine that role.
You have attracted the biggest audience that I have seen so far of non-committee MSPs. If you put an anonymous questionnaire around your staff, you might, I might suggest, get a surprise.
We can play a particular role in supporting the women politicians and community leaders in Malawi; women MSPs might be willing to develop that partnership.
That is why so many colleagues across Mid Scotland and Fife—the Fife constituency MSPs and the MSPs for the region of Mid Scotland and Fife—have supported the bill.