Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: Thursday, June 7, 2012
Official Report
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Point of Order
On a point of order, Presiding Officer.
This point of order is further to Sandra White’s point of order at the end of this morning’s debate on common fisheries policy reforms. As you will be aware, she insisted that it was unreasonable for me to raise a question with the cabinet secretary during his winding-up speech and asserted that I had arrived only towards the tail end of the debate. That was a bold claim from someone who had not been present herself at the debate. It was also, as your deputy, the cabinet secretary and the dozen or so MSPs who spoke in the debate will testify, a false claim.
Scottish National Party members might feel that my question to the fisheries secretary was not “the right question”, but they cannot claim that I did not have every right to ask it. Can you advise Parliament of the opportunities that are open to Sandra White to remedy her inadvertent misleading of Parliament?
I note the member’s point. It is, of course, not a point of order, but he has made sure that it has been entered into the record.