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In addition to my professional career, in between the time that I was an MP and became an MSP I was a paid consultant for Invicta Public Affairs, working in the marine energy sector and the wood panel industry.
I am also mindful of the community, for whom a just transition will feel too far away. As a constituency MSP, I will do everything in my power to sustain the life of the refinery and to ensure that it and the important chemical cluster around it can be supported.
I can give those workers, and Stuart McMillan as the local MSP, an assurance that the Scottish Government will engage not only with the local authority, as I said, but with the company directly, where we can.
Given how horrifying some of these cases are—the cases that Russell Findlay mentioned are absolutely horrifying—I can understand the temptation for MSPs to demand that the Government take action.
In closing the petition, we might wish to highlight to the petitioner that she can contact her local MSPs about pursuing amendments to the bill once it is introduced, to ensure that the issues that are raised in the petition are fully considered.
The intention is that we will provide Parliament with a detailed update on the outcome of the planning process that is currently being undertaken with national health service boards to determine the first allocations of the long Covid support fund, which is what MSPs have called for.