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The committee appears to acknowledge that such schools have a place, but there is no definition of a national role or clarity about MSPs' expectations of those schools. It is important to examine that role.
I mention that because it reminds members that we are talking about a special industry that involves special people to whom we owe a special moral obligation. That applies to every fishing MSP and every fishing minister.The situation that faces the industry is as serious as any that I can remember as a fishing MSP.
For example, in relation to the Edinburgh tramline projects, many MSPs indicated during the preliminary stage that they supported the proposal to shift the route of one of the lines.
Although it appears in the business bulletin in my name, five other MSPs have signed it and I hope that many more MSPs will support it at the end of the debate.
The decision to go ahead with it was made by Donald Dewar, but it was ratified in June 1999 by every Labour MSP and by most Liberal MSPs, despite the fact that Donald Dewar rejected advice about the site, the contractor and the architect.
Can I take it from that answer that you do not support the extension of the list of proscribed people, which includes elected representatives such as MSPs and councillors, as well as criminals?
I plead with ministers to listen to members when we raise local issues about which we feel very concerned. When we do so, as MSPs, we are entitled to be given decent, straight and dependable answers.
It is open to us, as the convener implied, to pursue an amendment as a committee rather than as individual MSPs. It might be that this is an occasion on which the committee might wish to examine that option.
As Sarah Boyack said, the issue is almost certainly linked to antisocial behaviour.A significant part of my work, and of all MSPs' work, concerns housing; all of us deal with absolutely desperate cases.