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When I was a district councillor, I learned about children’s services, old people’s services and so on. I used to visit care homes regularly with my chairmanship hat on, which was good.
I do not know where the Presiding Officer got those figures from or whether we should have had that information in the first place so that we knew what we were comparing things with. We have figures from the Government but no understanding as to why the Presiding Officer ruled the amendments as being adequate for us to discuss today.
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Date published:
16 September 2024
Children are not starting their lives as healthy and as likely to succeed as could and should be the case. If you want to compare what is happening here with other countries that are taking the issue seriously, I will be happy to send you the evidence.
That is a huge testament to the ideas that began in Fenwick so many years earlier and were carried forward elsewhere in Scotland and in England.I am delighted to support whole-heartedly the motion and an idea in which I have been interested for 30 years. I visited Mondragon at last in October and saw that it benefited from ideas that had stemmed from our co...
To the ordinary individual, that is all science fiction, but a colleague of mine is visiting a plasma vitrification plant today in Italy to see the process at work.
It is right to focus on transport, but I would not necessarily say that just because an area is excluded from that sort of society it is in any sense or shape disadvantaged. I have visited Shetland and Orkney many times and have found that communities there have an enormous sense of self-help and a different type of entrepreneurship.