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Community councils are now included under the requirement that we must consult a range of individuals and organisations with interests in national park areas.The point is that these are national parks and it is important to strike the right balance. MSPs have a responsibility to show leadership and be positive about the establishment of the parks; as the bo...
Only yesterday, Archbishop Conti mentioned during his lunchtime chat with a group of MSPs that people in the west of Scotland tell him regularly that they do not feel safe to go out at night.
The fact is that I was attending a health meeting in my local community in Dunfermline. MSPs simply cannot be there at— Will the member take an intervention?
We must have a fair, open and transparent system that is also seen to be fair—perceptions are all-important. As a constituency MSP I, like many other MSPs, have received numerous complaints about the legal profession over the years.
That is simply unacceptable in a modern liberal society.Labour MSPs such as Paul Martin and Marilyn Livingstone clearly have no scruples about including law-abiding people on the police database.