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However, in a face-to-face encounter with many of the people in the public gallery today, I would be struggling. As MSPs, all of us must take that on board.
There was a reference to the Scottish Executive rural affairs department's intention to arrange a briefing for MSPs on fishing matters. Is that for all MSPs or only for members of this committee?
People can see what is happening all around them—every MSP has dealt with cases involving the situation that I am talking about—and it is unacceptable that, in the 21st century, we are treating our elderly in this despicable manner.
I will have to explain to them that it is not that sort of committee.The Standards Committee is the right committee to deal with the matter. We try to deal with MSPs who step out of line, so it is right that we should deal with ministers who do so.
From the subsequent correspondence, the high-visibility and low-visibility models seem to be more popular than the executive agency and "will write" models. As a difficult MSP, I find model 5.1 to be much more attractive.