This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
We recognised that there is an issue around the relationship of the organics sector both with the new arrangements following CAP reform and with the new concept of land management contracts, which the Executive is on record as saying that it would like to develop.
However, I was glad to hear that in February, the Minister for Health and Community Care, Susan Deacon, promised 50 new doctors and 50 new nurses for rural practices.
We have the opportunity to seize and harness the positive opportunity that can be brought to Scotland by the influx of a new population with new skills, or we can preside over the growth of a marginalised and excluded group that will be living in great poverty.
I visited harvest stations and fish processors, I consulted the Scottish Association for Marine Science at Dunstaffnage and Fisheries Research Services at Aberdeen.
In June this year, the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee, of which I am a member, will visit Shetland. Rhona Brankin, who is present, is also a committee member.