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There has been no urgency from the Government to act on mould and damp in homes, although I would wager that every MSP has had at least one complaint from a constituent about mould and damp.
I cannot follow why housing does not have a dedicated seat at the Cabinet table. 16:22 As an MSP for the Lothian region and a former City of Edinburgh councillor, I welcome the chance to speak in the debate.
I want to look at the consequences of a transport policy developed by urban MSPs—those very same MSPs who advocate 20-minute communities, which speak to our drive towards net zero.
I say to the First Minister that setting that out in “broad terms” is not acceptable for an issue of such importance, which she wants MSPs to support in just 24 hours’ time.
I am constantly calling that out. As MSPs, we need to be mindful of the language that we use—about human beings, at the end of the day—given that we are only one payslip away from needing social security ourselves.
When I was Minister for Housing, I talked about the fund to leave and the issues around domestic abuse in relation to the Housing (Scotland) Bill that I took forward. In my time as an MSP, I have taken part in various cross-party round-table discussions and spoken on the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.The minister and the cabinet secretar...
We have received apologies from Stephen Kerr MSP. The only public item on our agenda is to take evidence in our inquiry into the legal mechanism for any independence referendum.