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I get increasingly saddened by the fact that, despite two years since it was delivered 16 MSPs by a new electoral system, the Conservative party still does not have its heart in devolution.
The following day, at a seminar at their headquarters and in the presence of a number of MSPs, I asked the same question of an assistant chief constable.
However, does he agree that it is inappropriate for MSPs such as Murdo Fraser to try to drive every single wind farm application, good or bad, to a public inquiry?
This is the third meeting at which we will take oral evidence on the general principles of the bill. Michael Matheson MSP has submitted his apologies. I remind members and others who are attending the meeting to ensure that mobile phones and pagers have been switched off.
When I consider the number of constituents who have notified me—and, I am sure, other MSPs—of their concerns about the matter in the past week or so, I am disappointed by what I have heard in the chamber today.
The problem is that, at the local level, the advice does not seem to be followed in practices. MSPs' postbags are full of letters from patients who say that, if they lived three doors up, they would be in a different NHS board area and would be able to get a different drug.