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We want to hear about what is working in the Borders, whether it can be transferred to Aberdeen and so on. On Aberdeen, having been involved in community planning for about 10 years I can say that we are in a better place than we have ever been.
We need to accept that the job market is much more fluid these days and that applicants require a host of transferable skills if they are to be wholly successful.
Labour is not facing an election; if its members said that their priority was housing and set out where money should be transferred from, I would believe what they are saying.However, we just have crocodile tears from Labour.
We need a fundamental change in Scotland’s relationship with alcohol, and we need it now. 16:26 I stopped drinking about 20 years ago, for a number of reasons.
The time has come to show leadership and to deliver on behalf of the Gypsy Traveller community.16:26 I welcome the opportunity to close the debate for Labour on the Equal Opportunities Committee’s report on where Gypsy Travellers live.
However, we now know that there are certainly victims in Scotland to whom this Parliament owes an appropriate response.Strathclyde Police has been given the details of 26 potential victims of phone hacking or press intrusion arising from consideration of the records of Glenn Mulcaire.
We need to find a way of circumventing the difficulties we face, which we are trying to address.I ask Parliament to support the motion and the amendment from Claire Baker.16:26 I, too, note my interest as a councillor on Aberdeen City Council.
What concerns me about the statistics from police forces throughout Scotland is that 26 offenders are missing or abroad. The information that I can examine and interrogate shows that those individuals have been missing for the past five months.