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External Meetings The need for an external meetings policy arose when we were getting requests from everyone and their auntie to hold meetings all over Scotland.
The bill is important and we want to ensure that we get it right. I am struck again by what Cathie Craigie said about the fact that the same people who give advice will monitor the situation.
If committee members have strong, clear ideas of recommendations that they want to be included in the paper, they should get them to the clerks by the close of business tomorrow.
In the meantime, the freedom that placing requests offer is important and we must get the relevant legislation right. The bill takes us forward in that regard.
I understand that there could be problems with the time scale of that work, but we need to get whatever information is available at the earliest opportunity.
Committee members will probably know as well as I do the utter determination of the elderly, in spite of their infirmities, to get to the polling booth to register their vote.