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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.
If not, we will move on to Eleanor Scott's question. As one of the few MSPs here today who is not from Fife, I hope that people will forgive me if I am behind the times on some of the issues.
I remind the officials that, during stage 2 proceedings, they can advise the minister but are not allowed to speak. I also welcome Paul Martin MSP and Michael McMahon MSP, who are with us to speak to amendments in group 4.
At a hustings meeting in Dundee on Monday night, the local SNP candidate said that he wanted all quangos to be abolished; now we find SNP MSPs arguing that quangos should be placed above elected councils and politicians.
She said that Glasgow Kelvin is an obvious place for tourists to visit, given its dense population of MSPs and journalists. I question whether that is a feature worth emphasising—I say that as an MSP and a member of the National Union of Journalists.
It would be useful if you could put on the record some illustrations—or whatever explanation you care to give. An MSP would be such a person. Indeed. That was the very example that I was going to give, to which the convener has already alluded.
(Reform) (Scotland) Bill. It is not for Parliament or MSPs to micromanage the criminal justice system, but it is for us to create the environment in which effective management can operate, and to hold the Government accountable for what happens in the system.
I am committed.Mark Ruskell sends his apologies for not being available to take part in the debate; he was one of the cross-party group of MSPs who visited Malawi in February and I know that the visit affected him deeply.
As John Scott mentioned earlier, the SPCB has to authorise the Auditor General's salary, but the salary is paid by Audit Scotland. A separate body of MSPs scrutinises Audit Scotland's budget.