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There is no doubt that it has attracted significant public interest. MSPs who are not members of the committee may have genuine questions to ask arising from the report.
We are giving up a day and a half every week, when committees could be doing something, to sit in the chamber where we are not even allowed to speak because we are not high enough on the list. It is a waste of MSPs' time to sit surrounding someone who is speaking for the sake of the television cameras.
There is much mention of roads and trains in the proposals—MSPs travel, by and large, by car and train—but there is very little mention of measures to increase bus services; I notice only one.
It is important that we have a discussion with MSPs. The unified board takes seriously its responsibility and accountability to the Parliament, the Executive and the wider Lothian community.
Everyone should remember that the person they are not being particularly pleasant to might be their dentist, their child's teacher, their financial adviser or maybe even their MSP in future. I have a number of people to thank.