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As Donald Gorrie said, we also wanted the bill to cover MSPs, but we realise that we have a Standards Committee, which will consider the standards for MSPs in the light of the standards that will apply to councillors if the bill is passed today.
I was horrified to hear Christine Grahame's view of the communities in which I and most of the MSPs here work and live. I am grateful to Cathy Peattie for taking less than her allotted time.
If we extrapolated that throughout the Parliament, we would arrive at a total of 43 MSPs. The situation regarding Scottish Water falls far short of utopian.
Amazingly, all those things happen; people forge, or tamper with, blue badges.I sympathise with the concerns of all the MSPs who have raised the issue and I am grateful to the two members who lodged the motion.
That change has been quite successful.We are fortunate to have as MSPs so many former teachers who can bring their particular expertise and ideas to debates such as this.
What I consider to be a petty offence might not be so to someone else. Similarly, what one MSP understands by the phrase "a crime of dishonesty" might not be the same as what is understood by another MSP.
I bring to the attention of members the situation that John Farquhar Munro and I have had to face, as have MSPs of all colours, in the Highlands over the past few days.
It reflects the vigorous lobbying of MSPs and the Government by many organisations, which have brought to the debate the weight of considerable knowledge on the issues.