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However, I am also a patient, and the experience that I was giving you was my own. One strength of a lot of MSPs and everyone sitting round this table is that we all come to discussions, debates and policy with our experiences.
I thank colleagues for their kind words about my former MSP colleague, John Scott, who was in Parliament just a couple of weeks ago with his grandchildren.
I also thank Jackson Carlaw and former MSPs Alex Neil and Neil Findlay for the immense amount of work that they did, long before I came on the scene, on the devastation that mesh implants have caused in women’s lives.
Motion agreed to, That the Parliament appoints Murdo Fraser MSP as a Fund trustee of the Scottish Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund, further to his nomination for such appointment by the Parliamentary corporation.
Crucially, will it include the £2 million that was desperately sought—again, in a letter that was sent to all MSPs—by the outdoor education sector, which is desperate for support in the pandemic?
Throughout this parliamentary session, we have heard from various MSPs, advocacy groups and charities, for example, about the impact that the pandemic has had on many people in Scotland.
Let us hope that those are not just easy words but that there are actions to follow, before more miners fall into penury and others die before they receive their pensions. 12:52 As the MSP for Cowdenbeath, I am pleased to speak in this debate on the mineworkers pension scheme.