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After all, I recall the day of the stage 3 debate on the Licensing (Scotland) Bill when, after the chaos in the chamber, many MSPs trooped out having spoken and heard words of Puritanism to enjoy the trays of free booze that awaited us.
Four years ago, we pledged to build safer and stronger communities—building on the experience that we had all shared as MSPs in the first session of Parliament—and to put tackling antisocial behaviour at the top of our agenda.
Workers are suffering as a consequence of their intransigence. It is ironic that the two MSP boast about their support for trade unions and workers in struggle when they are riding roughshod over the pay and conditions of trade union members."
I have consistently said that that process will be heavily informed by public consultation; discussion with individual MSPs will form an important part of that.
I welcome to the fifth meeting this year of the Procedures Committee Bill Aitken MSP, the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party business manager, and George Lyon MSP, the Scottish Liberal Democrat business manager.
The issue should then come back to the Parliament for MSPs to approve the recommendations of the public inquiry reporter or whatever the minister has decided on the basis of that.
I do not want a situation in which external debate could overtake the opportunity to discuss the document that should rightly be afforded to MSPs. I want to try to ensure that MSPs have a reasonable amount of time to consider the document once we publish it and that they debate its contents in the chamber as quickly ...
It is also absolutely disgusting that the SNP is represented in the chamber by only three members in a debate on one of our major industries.Stewart Maxwell mentioned the"brave band of Labour MPs".I do not think that his party has ever understood devolution. The business of the SNP MSPs is not to hold Labour MPs to account, but to hold Labour MSPs to account.