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That point has already been made, and I am sure that it will be made again.Unfortunately, Lanarkshire, where I live and part of which I represent as an MSP, has some of the worst health statistics in Scotland.
Will Labour members offer to detain them in their homes overnight? A night in the company of Labour MSPs sharpening their knives might deter many people from reoffending.
In the previous session of Parliament, I was pleased to welcome to the Parliament a group of looked-after children from West Lothian. They spoke to MSPs about their experience of being looked after.
That is something that may be an advantage to an MSP who looks for a bit of peace at the weekends, but I can assure members that it is far less convenient for the doctor who regularly phones me to tell me that his signal has gone.
I believe that the mental health of every single MSP in this chamber needs to be nurtured every bit as much as our physical health, and we are not in ourselves any more resilient with regard to mental health issues than anyone else in society.
Agenda item 1 is the only item of business; it is our first day of stage 2 consideration of the Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Bill. I welcome Michael Matheson MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, who is joining us today as the member in charge of the bill.
The UKIP MEP could not develop his argument live on television because he had the wrong SNP MSP next to him. He had a Frenchman there—a migrant—but he did not want to talk about migration.
Does she agree that there is a certain inconsistency between Labour MSPs criticising those changes and a Labour spokesperson on welfare, in the shape of Rachel Reeves, saying that she would be tougher on welfare than the Tories?