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I suspect that the principal difficulty that confronts the four proposed new junior ministers may be making their mark outwith the chamber, in the perception of the Scottish public.
It may be that some of the debate on this issue today and at stage 3 will focus our attention on what section L2 of schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998 means.
At the beginning of next week's meeting we may have a draft timetable for members to comment on.I know that our meeting clashes with a bureau meeting, so Mike Russell will not be here.
However, we are usually working to a tight time scale. We may be assessing populations of breeding birds, for example, but our report may have to be produced in November.
Tommy Sheridan will ask one last question before I bring in other members. I may get the chance to ask later why Scotland is a route instead of a country—we tend to think of ourselves as a country—but I shall ask my last question.