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I know that you are going to be strict today, Presiding Officer, and I am coming to the question. How long, O Lord, how long? The proceeds from the assets of convicted drug dealers, like fines, go into a consolidated fund.
I do not often use them because although NDA stands for national diploma in agriculture, sadly the O stands for ordinary. The course did not last particularly long.
Perhaps by simply taking to heart the words that we will walk over every time we come here—the words of St Paul that are carved on the forecourt at the entrance to Queensberry House:"Gin I speak wi the tungs o men an angelsbut hae nae luve i my hairtI am no nane better nor dunnerin bress or a ringing cymbal."
Anyone who has been to a memorial service or a funeral for one lost at sea, knows full well how much passion is given to the singing of the hymn: "O hear us when we cry to thee,For those in peril on the sea."
I am pleased to be in this somewhat elite company, in which all the brains of the Parliament are gathered together. "O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!"
Will the Executive ask the Robert Burns World Federation whether the First Minister and the Secretary of State for Scotland could adopt a slightly amended version of Burns's words as their motto—"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us, To hear oursels as others hear us"?
It is discouraging to be unable to initiate campaigns that have long been established in other areas. O for a zero tolerance campaign in the Highlands.
To ministers, I say that when a report such as this is produced, they should take on board the words of Rabbie Burns. He wrote:"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!"
It has an excellent display, explanation board and car park at the Burn o' Vat. At that very place, there was a major battle in Scottish history—the battle of Culblean on St Andrew's day in 1335—but the SNH material says nothing about that human activity.
I welcome that progress because it helps, but people should not get toothache on a Friday, because they cannot see the dentist on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday; they have to wait until Monday. Toothache—the "hell o' a' diseases", as Burns called it—is not something that anyone wants to live with for three days.