 I thank you all my fellow MSPs. I am very grateful indeed for the honour and the privilege that you have granted me to be your next Presiding Officer. I want to thank also my fellow candidates. Before I go any further, can I pay a particular tribute to my predecessor, as Presiding Officer, to Trisha Marwick, who I think will be going up to join her family in the gallery? I imagine that Trisha will be full of many and mixed emotions today, but I suggest to her that she finds room for at least a small feeling of pride, pride that she has served her constituency, her region and her country with distinction over 17 years, and pride too that she had the courage, as Presiding Officer, to begin the process of parliamentary reform, a process that I would be honoured to follow in her footsteps, and proud, I think, that she has left the Parliament more mature, more established and more confident than ever before, ready for our new powers, ready for the new challenges that undoubtedly lie ahead. As Trisha and many of our former colleagues stepped down, it gives me great pleasure to welcome and thank all of you, the class of 2016. I can see around me many familiar faces and friends, and I welcome you back, but I see too a huge number of new members freshly elected. On a personal level, the energy, the infectious enthusiasm and the optimism with which you have filled this building already in the few days that you have been here has invigorated me. It has refreshed this place and reminded us all of the opportunity that the Scottish Parliament offers all of us to make a better Scotland. As we look ahead over the next five years, I hope that we can work together. However, I wish to apologise now. With a record number of new faces, I am sure that I will make some mistakes in the next few days. I will bound and misidentify you. I will probably actually relocate your region or your constituency to another part of Scotland. In the last few days, I have warmly congratulated on their election to this Parliament, two members of our catering staff, a BBC journalist and a special branch officer working for Prince Charles last night. The revitalising of this Parliament reminds me of the promise offered by Devolution, which is to work together across the party divide for the common good. I imagine that all of you and all your families are filled with pride that you serve as MSPs in the Scottish Parliament. I know mine does. I know that my late father would have enjoyed this moment. My father was never elected—never stood for office, actually—he was a head teacher, but he was asked to be a candidate three times on three different occasions. The most revealing aspect about my father is that he was asked by three different political parties. For the first time perhaps in my life, I hope that I have inherited that quality from him. I am very conscious that each one of us, each one of you, has a tremendous responsibility and a duty to the people of Scotland. I see it as my responsibility and my duty to help you in that task. Thank you very much.