Plenary, 09 Dec 1999
Meeting date: Thursday, December 9, 1999
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Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill: Financial Resolution
The next item of business is the financial resolution, motion S1M-254, in relation to the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill. I ask Jack McConnell to move that motion. Mr McConnell, you have no more than three minutes in which to do so.
I move the motion formally.
It would help us fill in time before decision time if you read the motion out. We cannot move to decision time before 5 pm. Yesterday, a member, who shall remain nameless, failed to reach their desk in time, so I believe that it would be unfair to bring decision time forward.
I rise to move the financial resolution on the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill, which, more accurately, is called the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill financial resolution.
The resolution, as members will realise, is very complete and I imagine that it requires no discussion by this Parliament. It bears no relation whatsoever to council tax compensation for landfill sites in Glasgow. [Laughter.] Furthermore, it has no comparison with the budget in England.
I move,
That the Parliament, for the purposes of any Act of the Scottish Parliament resulting from the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Bill, agrees to— (a) any increase attributable to that Act in the sums payable out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund by or under any other Act; (b) charges by the Public Guardian in connection with his functions under the Act. Ms Margo MacDonald (Lothians) (SNP): I apologise for missing most of the debate. Could we start at the beginning again?
On a point of order. I want to apologise to all members. I could have gone on for considerably longer on the subject of incapable adults. However, as the clock had changed, I thought that I had been speaking for 16 minutes. I would like to bring that to the attention of other members of the Executive.
I was responsible for changing the clock in the hope that you would not be misled and believe that you had to count down too fast.
I think that we have filled in time satisfactorily. I can fill in the remaining seconds by making an announcement that I was going to make tomorrow. The clerk of the Parliament and I, together with the Presiding Officer and clerk of the Welsh Assembly, will be travelling on 21 December to Belfast at the invitation of the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly. I am sure that all members want us to convey our good wishes to our colleagues in Northern Ireland on the resumption of their Assembly. [Applause.]