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I can confirm all of the above. As an MSP who represents a constituency that relies on our ferries, I am particularly delighted with the increase in support for our lifeline ferry services.
Given my constituency interest as the MSP for Cowdenbeath, I will focus my remarks in the brief time available on the issue of the new Royal hospital for children and young people.
In fairness, it is not a question for just the finance secretary—I am one of 129 MSPs, and all MSPs will have to behave responsibly and carefully consider our collective priorities.
A constituent could have come to me at a surgery and said, “The police have taken my phone and looked at every piece of data on it,” yet I, as a constituency MSP, as well as people more widely were not aware that it was happening.
In other parts of the United Kingdom and other countries, people can see their papers. Given the correspondence to MSPs on the issue, it might be helpful if there were that transparency in Scotland too.
However, over both days of this debate, we have heard Opposition MSP after Opposition MSP lecturing and condemning the Scottish Government for seeking to implement an undeniable and explicit democratic mandate.