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We live in an extremely litigious society and I think that people always have one eye on what the consequences would be if we did not reappoint. Our experience to date is that, in the reappointment process, we are, to a significant degree, going through the motions.
There is on-going change, which pre-dates the legislative process and involves looking afresh at what the Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Screen and other bodies do in contemporary Scotland.
I am intrigued by Rhona Brankin's comment about the recession. Does she acknowledge that the Calman commission's provisions on taxation and borrowing would, in a recession, make it difficult for the Scottish Government to deal with such problems?
I do not want to have debates such as the one that we are having now, in which members at opposite ends of the chamber are arguing about whether we should be part of a union that is well past its sell-by date, or part of new dynamic Scotland.
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Date answered:
1 December 2010