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An emergency service must cope with emergencies.In the past seven months, we have seen two tragedies. No MSP wants to contemplate having to raise the issue again, so can the First Minister assure us all that this time something will be done?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-27349 by Bruce Crawford on 28 September 2009, on what occasion written briefs have been provided by it to SNP MSPs but not to MSPs from other political parties.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 September 2008
I ask everyone to ensure that mobile devices are switched to silent. I welcome Gordon Lindhurst MSP and John Finnie MSP, who have joined us this morning.
His response is as follows: The Scottish Prison Service positively welcomes visits by MSPs and any MSP wishing to visit a prison is encouraged either to make contact with my office or the governor of the prison concerned so that arrangements can be made.
However, on maintaining a fluent dialogue with the industry, my inbox is very alive—as is Malcolm Roughead’s and, I am sure, every MSP’s—with comments from across our sector as a whole, because we are all itching to get going again.
If she presses her amendment, I ask MSPs to vote against it. That is the way to ensure that there is proper scrutiny, to make good law and to protect mountain hares.