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Council leader Donald Anderson said in a recent letter to MSPs:"It is no longer enough to say that we have procedures in place and that staff are expected to follow these.
We already have shadowing in the Parliament, including people shadowing our work as MSPs. That practice should be widely extended into the private sector.
It is perhaps for my convener to answer that, but the intention was that contact would be made with MSPs and ministers. In a sense, it was slightly out of my hands at that point.
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.