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I agree: qualified accountants should do a lot of the analytical and interpretative work behind the scenes. MSPs or individuals are not interested in that work, but in what the information means.
We are aware of the issues that are of importance to this committee and individual MSPs and we have considerable sympathy for the problems that are being faced in the Highlands and Islands area.
I also think—the convener will correct me if I am wrong—that the meeting to which Mr Munro referred was a meeting of MSPs, many of whom had an interest in rural affairs, rather than a meeting of the Rural Affairs Committee.
Our responsibility as parliamentarians is to spread information as widely as we can. It is then down to MSPs to decide what weight to give to that information, because we have to bear in mind that every MSP will have issues pressing from the areas that he or she represents.
We already have shadowing in the Parliament, including people shadowing our work as MSPs. That practice should be widely extended into the private sector.
As a first step, I am writing to every MSP of every political hue to ask them to identify people in their local communities who could make a contribution in NHS boardrooms.