On a point of order, Presiding Officer. At First Minister’s question time today, I made a comment that I now understand to be unparliamentary. If that is the case, I withdraw the term attributed to me. However, at the same question time, the First Minister described Labour’s support for a modest tax increase on those earning more than £20,000—
Members: Just apologise.
Order. Let us hear Mr Findlay.
—to end the Government’s austerity as “dishonest” and went on to accuse Labour of “perpetrating a con trick”. I therefore withdraw the term attributed to me that the Parliament finds unparliamentary and would instead substitute it with the term used by the First Minister today.
Mr Findlay, you have been a member of the Parliament for almost five years. You know that the word “liar”—the word that you used at First Minister’s question time and that was recorded by the independent official report—is unparliamentary. I note what you have said and I will consider the matter further.