His statement was also, of course, bathed in the self-congratulation for which he is famous.The SNP Government should not get too carried away by a year in which it has delivered two pieces of legislation—one of which is impacting negatively on a significant group of students—plus a few headline-grabbing initiatives, including scrapping bridge tolls and freezing the council tax, which have led to damaging consequences for the environment and the provision of local government services respectively.Of course we welcome the cross-party initiatives on tobacco, alcohol and drugs that the motion refers to—indeed, I was pleased to defend the Scottish Government's recent anti-smoking initiatives on "Riddoch Questions" on Friday in the absence of the minister—but we must ask ourselves whether some at least of the £165 million that has been spent on the business rates reduction that the motion trumpets could not have been transferred...