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I was an external assessor for the Marine Stewardship Council accreditation of the Torridon nephrops fishery in 2002, and I have subsequently supervised scientific studies of the fisheries at Torridon and elsewhere in the north west of Scotland. I am an MSP for Central Scotland. I am the MSP for Galloway and West Dum...
However, from speaking to many disabled people and disabled people’s charities over the past nine years during my time as an MSP, I think that I am the exception, not the rule.
I have heard the interaction between Fulton MacGregor and other MSPs on the committee and I think that that is a very reasonable way to do it—with no timescale specified and using the affirmative procedure to introduce more details.
It is fine to have a commitment to change X, Y and Z at stage 3 but while there is a risk that potential perpetrators could get anonymity, too, I do not feel that, as responsible MSPs, we can agree to the amendment.