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It is hoped that, nevertheless, this paper will assist the committees and MSPs in future scrutiny exercises, including in Session 6 with scrutiny under Protocol 2.
In his statement to the Chamber, Dereck Mackay MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Economy and Fair Work stated that "if the UK does end up in a no deal Brexit, I may be required to revisit the priorities in this Budget."
I hope that the Government will take on board the Public Audit Committee’s concerns about that.I want to talk about the gathering, to which Jamie McGrigor referred. I was one of the two MSPs who referred the matter to the Auditor General in the first place.
However, we are realistic about the possible rates of progress in that regard.18:12 “Why,” the weary listener might ask, “do island MSPs keep going on about this subject?”
As a general observation—to answer the point that John Deighan made—we see our role as being to help MSPs to find areas of the bill that would benefit from amendment if and only if MSPs choose to support it.
I hate, always, to disagree with Helen Eadie, who is by far my favourite MSP. Perhaps she can tell me—Tricia Marwick did not—where all the HGVs go once they have come over the new bridge.
The new Con-Dem coalition colleagues must take the message on board down south and MSPs must use our powers of opposition in Scotland and as part of the UK process.
He pointed out that it is open to any MSP to argue for that.The series of tests, including fitness for involvement, the requirement to behave in a proper way—as set out in section 51—and the requirement to have a head of legal services and a head of practice will provide that protection.
If there is one thing I have learned as an MSP—and as a minister—it is that 1 per cent of the job is about good law, and 99 per cent of it is about making things work in practice.
The Crown Estate is also doing good work in enabling the expansion of offshore wind energy and by investing in research and in carbon capture and storage.As every MSP will know from their mailbag, onshore wind energy remains controversial.