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Now that I am aware of such initiatives, I will do my best as an MSP to spread the word through social media, and I will encourage others to do the same.
We must demand that rural proofing is at the front and centre of all decision making. 15:54 Some colleagues might find it unusual for the MSP for Rutherglen to be speaking in a debate on rural and farming issues.
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 am aware that there are those who say that the bill does not go far enough. I have met MSPs from other parties to demonstrate my willingness to work with them on amendments at stage 2.
As parliamentarians and representatives of their constituencies, how many MSPs go and engage directly with their ethnic minority communities for chamber debates?
As we have heard this afternoon, every MSP in the chamber agrees with that, although there are stark differences in policies and in how we believe Scotland is performing compared with other countries.
Ring fencing makes things easy, in a sense—I am not saying that I agree with ring fencing—in that it enables us to follow the money and see where it has gone. People ask MSPs how much is spent on education and so on.
We ask people who can afford it, such as MSPs, to pay more. That helps us to deliver a wider and better-funded range of free-to-access public services than is available elsewhere in the UK.