Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: Thursday, June 14, 2012
Official Report
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Point of Order
On a point of order, Presiding Officer.
At First Minister’s question time today, the First Minister said:
“Under contracts that were drawn up during the years of the Labour and Liberal Administration, Lena Wilson has a contractual entitlement to a public sector bonus”.
That simply cannot be true. The chief executive was appointed in 2009, her contract was drawn up in 2009 and her bonus was agreed in 2009. It is a chronological impossibility that any previous Government is responsible for Lena Wilson’s bonus.
Presiding Officer, will you give the First Minister, who is sitting in the chamber, an opportunity to correct the record and accept that the contract was drawn up under his Administration?
I thank Mr Rennie for the advance notice of his point. He will recognise that that was not a point of order. The accuracy of statements that are made in the chamber is not a matter for the Presiding Officers. However, Mr Rennie’s point is now a matter of record.