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Also attending the committee today we have Margo MacDonald MSP and Frank McAveety MSP. I welcome to the committee representatives of three of Scotland's local authorities that have views on the bill: Councillor Kingsley Thomas, from the City of Edinburgh Council; Leslie Brown, the community safety strategist for Aber...
The rolling stock strategy has not yet been rolled out, so we have no idea what it will cost.My colleague Bruce Crawford will put the case for the urgent requirement to order an additional crossing of the Forth, given that the Forth road bridge may be closed to lorries by 2013.If over the past seven years we MSPs have learned anything about public sector pr...
I had thought that the custody and behavioural order was entirely consistent with what the First Minister said, but Labour MSPs voted against my amendment.Despite the figures on gun crime—in 2005, there were 72 murders with a knife in Scotland whereas Executive figures show that the number of murders with firearms during 2004-05 was eight—Jackie Baillie spo...
It will come as no surprise to both ministers that this MSP will not sit idly and nod in agreement to proposals that will destroy our precious crofting heritage.
That is what we must deliver for patients.A number of MSPs noted that the Audit Scotland report, "Tackling waiting times in the NHS in Scotland", comments that waiting lists have "changed little".
The recruitment crisis in maths is perhaps the most noticeable, but other subject areas are also affected. MSPs will no doubt be aware of the briefing from the Royal Society of Chemistry, which said that one in five schools is already turning away pupils from studying chemistry because of the lack of teachers.
Nevertheless, I realise that, as Bill Butler said, it is not a panacea, and it is still in its infancy.Like MSPs throughout the chamber, constituents regularly raise the topic of antisocial behaviour in their correspondence with me.
I am pleased to speak in the debate, both as an MSP and—like many others here today—as a former volunteer in organisations ranging from Child Support Agency tribunals to citizens advice bureaux.There is no doubt about the value that volunteers bring to a service, or of the enormous personal benefit that volunteers can gain from volunteering.