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We are giving up a day and a half every week, when committees could be doing something, to sit in the chamber where we are not even allowed to speak because we are not high enough on the list. It is a waste of MSPs' time to sit surrounding someone who is speaking for the sake of the television cameras.
Both the Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy, Maree Todd MSP, and the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs acknowledged the growing challenge of synthetic cannabinoids and new potent opioids, including nitazenes.
I am particularly attracted by the part of her motion that urges ministers and MSPs to "consider what further support can be given to protect Scotland's historical places and artefacts."
Amazingly, all those things happen; people forge, or tamper with, blue badges.I sympathise with the concerns of all the MSPs who have raised the issue and I am grateful to the two members who lodged the motion.
Some 7 per cent of households will pay neither more nor less, and 16 per cent will pay more. Every one of us MSPs will pay more. We will pay more because we can afford to pay more.