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All local enterprise companies are accountable to me, but MSPs and other interested parties might not think that that is the best line of accountability.
Only yesterday, Archbishop Conti mentioned during his lunchtime chat with a group of MSPs that people in the west of Scotland tell him regularly that they do not feel safe to go out at night.
The benefit to the committee of appointing an assessor was to"reduce the burden on MSPs in dealing with what are at times highly complex and technical matters"while enabling the"process to be conducted more efficiently."
We all want poverty to be eradicated, but how can we achieve that with what we have in our hands now?We have all moved on as MSPs in the past seven years and we know what we are dealing with.
There is a majority in the Parliament for more nuclear power—we and Labour members support it. Surely it is time for Labour MSPs to stop the Lib Dem tail wagging the Labour dog.
The proposals are fundamentally flawed, and are certainly not being driven by Scottish interests.To those who say that as MSPs we have no locus in this matter, I respectfully suggest that we have a duty to speak up for the interests of Scotland.
It arose from ministers' own experience and that of other MSPs in having to deal with the fallout from antisocial behaviour, week in, week out, in their surgeries and postbags.