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Does the minister agree that my colleague Stuart McMillan MSP’s current bill to recover expenses from employers or their insurers for having exposed workers, their families or the public to the risks of these horrendous diseases is a very welcome step?
Last November, my predecessor Michael Matheson MSP announced that former Crown Office Chief Executive Catherine Dyer would head up an Expert Group on Preventing Sexual Offending involving Children and Young People.
She is accompanied by Mike Dailly, who is principal solicitor and solicitor advocate at the Govan Law Centre, and by Kate Spence, who is an MSP staff researcher with the Scottish Labour Party.
It would be up to ministers to propose that, should they decide to go in that direction. My point is that our job as MSPs—as I am sure that you understand—is to look at the proposed law as it is written, and what you have written gives tremendous power to Scottish ministers to appoint anybody, and those people would not have to have qualifications.
We have the Inclusion Scotland programme that offers internships with MSPs. Will you give us an idea of how that relationship with the Scottish Parliament works Have you considered a similar scheme of internships for people who are black or minority ethnic?
It might also be good to have some awareness raising available to MSPs or Scottish Government policy people who speak out about it, because there has been some unhelpful language from politicians.