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I am interested in the consultation prior to the bill, particularly with the constituent authorities. The authorities may well be used to moneys occasionally being returned to them, but the bill would affect that.
Only MSPs can make that observation. Others may have experienced the inadequacies of the service but may not know from where those inadequacies derive.
As this is our first meeting at consideration stage, no further late objections may now be lodged.Do members agree that the objection should be allowed to proceed to preliminary consideration?
Jeremy Purvis will also be absent, but proposes that his colleague Margaret Smith attend in his place. She may duly appear. I thank Maureen Macmillan and Bill Butler for making the meeting quorate.
If the committee makes a decision today, we can make a proposal to the next meeting of the Conveners Group in May and get a decision that would probably still allow us to go before the end of Juneāin other words, in the current parliamentary year.