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I am referring to private enterprise work—as it were—that I or other committee members have done as individual MSPs. We could follow that up by including such information officially in a committee report.
We will take evidence on the Leasehold Casualties (Scotland) Bill from Adam Ingram MSP and from Professor Rennie of the Law Society of Scotland—although I am not sure that strictly speaking he is Professor Rennie of the Law Society of Scotland.
It took the view that most members would be expected to understand both spoken and written Scots, and that there would be no need to provide interpretation facilities for any MSPs who wanted to use Scots.The Welsh Assembly model, as outlined in the paper, seems to have a great deal to commend it.
I am sure that Jeremy Purvis will be there as the MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, and that Christine Grahame will be there, too, to repeat the peripheral role that she has played so far in the story.
I have nothing against the idea that MSPs, MPs and the public should make donations, but surely we have to ask why the guilty get to walk away scot free.
This is John Swinney, convener of the European and External Relations Committee of the Scottish Parliament. I am joined by Dennis Canavan MSP, Phil Gallie MSP, John Home Robertson MSP, Margaret Ewing MSP and Alasdair Morrison MSP.