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Regional and thematic seminars will be held and MSPs will have the opportunity to offer views on the scope and content of the framework prior to the publication of the draft for consultation.
We intend to move on to consider the advance and voluntary purchase schemes and housing and water and drainage infrastructure. We await Tavish Scott MSP, so I suspend the meeting for perhaps five minutes.
I put on record the fact that the chairman, the board members and the officials have always been readily available and accessible to me as the local MSP and they have been prepared to listen to my complaints.
She also asked about second-stage transfers elsewhere, but we follow a tenant-led process in that regard. As an Edinburgh MSP, I am not aware of demands from tenants in Edinburgh for second-stage transfers.
I cannot say that I have been challenged in the same way about income tax, although perhaps I would not be, as I am an MSP, not an MP. I am not sure that I agree totally with what you say, but perhaps that is just my perception.
On resuming— I welcome to the committee for the second part of our scrutiny of the 2006-07 budget Tavish Scott MSP, the Minister for Transport and Telecommunications.
Do we really want to return to the position where a school board is unable to comment on a proposal to site an off-licence at the school gates? Do MSPs want to reject the right to make our views known in our constituencies by objecting to or supporting applications?
On the evidence so far, water and drainage is not a show-stopper for the progress of most of the developments. As a Glasgow MSP, I have some background on how water problems can affect developments, so it is understandable that I might get worried about this.
Looking at it from the outside, I think that you have done a reasonable job.The minister has an audience in Scotland—he has the committee, the other MSPs and the people of Scotland—and an audience in Whitehall, at the Treasury.