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Official Report
Meeting date:
13 January 2009
Public Petitions Committee, 13 Jan 2009
You must be forceful about this and say that we need this law to benefit our children, even if they do not wish to benefit theirs down south. If our MSPs voted on the matter and secured a majority, that would surely be enough to take it forward regardless of what Westminster thinks.
Official Report
Meeting date:
10 June 2008
Public Petitions Committee, 10 Jun 2008
Part of the solution would be to assess the impact of the single outcome agreements on people's human rights and on the vulnerable groups in the community that I mentioned earlier. As a constituency MSP, I would always defend the right of local people to speak up for their local patch, but I will play devil's advocate.
Official Report
Meeting date:
14 May 2008
Education, Lifelong Learning and Culture Committee, 14 May 2008
COSLA has said that it wants to be represented on the board, which would be allowed—MSPs, MPs and MEPs are disqualified—and the issue is under discussion.As I said, the overriding factor is that we have the right mix of skills.
Official Report
Meeting date:
13 May 2008
Finance Committee, 13 May 2008
All that we are saying is that under a PFI scheme, you are stuck.There is a good example of that in Lanarkshire, where there are three major hospitals, two of which are PFI funded. I remember warning MSPs that it was self-evident that Monklands hospital would come under pressure because of Treasury rules, whereby funding for the other two hospitals was ring...
Official Report
Meeting date:
23 April 2008
Local Government and Communities Committee, 23 Apr 2008
Where a Scottish statutory instrument is subject to such a motion, the committee has adopted the practice of holding an evidence-taking session with the minister and officials prior to the motion's being debated formally.We welcome from the Scottish Government: the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, John Swinney MSP; Laura Sexton, senior ...
Official Report
Meeting date:
20 March 2008
Plenary, 20 Mar 2008
If he has made no such representations, why has he not done so?As MSPs, we must demonstrate to victims of trafficking that their contemptible clients are not representative of the Scottish people, and that the overwhelming majority of Scots offer genuine support and the hand of friendship to those who have been brought to our country on a false premise.
Official Report
Meeting date:
5 March 2008
Plenary, 05 Mar 2008
That will be a cause for celebration for all who live and work south of Edinburgh and it delivers on a promise that was made by the Parliament during its second session, when all but two MSPs voted to support the Waverley Railway (Scotland) Bill.Transport Scotland has completed the due diligence process that was put in train by my predecessor in March 2007,...
Official Report
Meeting date:
5 March 2008
Plenary, 05 Mar 2008
I would like to see such a letter going not just from MSPs but from the minister. I join others in congratulating Trish Godman on securing the debate.
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 November 2007
Scottish Commission for Public Audit, 28 Nov 2007
In accordance with the written agreement on the annual budget process, the commission has sent a copy of the expenditure plans to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, John Swinney MSP, and to the Finance Committee.Before us today is Robert Black, who is the Auditor General for Scotland, and from Audit Scotland we have Russell Frith, who...
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 November 2007
Plenary, 28 Nov 2007
Their parliamentary liaison officer, Bristow Muldoon, is well known to us all and I am sure that members from all sides of the chamber wish him well in the post that he has taken up.The success of the science and the Parliament event over the past seven years has spawned a joint initiative by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Parliament information centre, in association with the University of Edinburgh and the Institute of Physics in Scotland, which has resulted in the formation of the Scottish Parliament's science information service. That new service offers MSPs...
