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We have to ensure that specialised placements are kept open for young people who need them.Just before the recess, towards the end of June, we had a debate on the closure of Red Brae School.
The committee's members worked hard and well; they set aside their differences—as well as their recesses. They rolled up their sleeves, delved into a complex and emotive issue and did so with intelligence, good humour and integrity.
I note that since the beginning of the summer recess she has asked only two questions on criminal justice, compared with 25 questions from her justice spokesperson.
For the past decade, the only thing to be heard from a Tory about the two recessions, the double-digit inflation, the record unemployment, the 15 per cent interest rates and the doubling of the national debt was, "It wisnae me."
I challenge anybody who thinks that to spend a week during the summer recess working with one of the projects, talking directly to the young people and staff involved and doing something constructive by finding out about the projects and getting some new ideas.
Although I did not miss all the meetings of either of the committees, the pressure of work on the committees meant that keeping up to date put me under pressure. Keeping up to date does not mean only reading the papers—as members realise, not everything is in the papers.
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body on what date the algorithm for the computerised ballot of MSPs’ names for oral questions was introduced and on what dates any amendments to it have been introduced.