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The ministers in the Cabinet should set that by giving SRH a deal, saying, “Here is what you have to deliver”, and then let it get on with it. I appreciate that MSPs will raise issues from their constituencies.
Nor will I take lectures from urban MSPs who tell me that leaving the EU has been universally bad for our farmers, when farmers in my constituency have been pleased to have their less favoured area support payments restored.
On recycling and waste, Jackie Dunbar referenced the council-led Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire energy-from-waste plant. We MSPs are sent to Parliament to serve our constituents and our country.
I will address the debate not as an MSP for an island constituency but from my perspective as a member of the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee.
Only this morning, The Herald reported that exports have dropped by 13 per cent since Brexit. Last week, I offered Labour MSPs the opportunity to stand up and advise me of any benefits to Scotland of Brexit; I now offer that opportunity to Tory MSPs.
The cabinet secretary clearly knows—we know this from every debate in the Parliament—that the Greens’ votes are in the bag and that deals done behind closed doors will see the Government able to get the budget through Parliament. However, I appeal to Green MSPs and every MSP who will be out campaigning for their SNP ...