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I have supported the argument for a rail link for many years as a councillor and an MSP and I am delighted that today we are taking a step towards achieving it.We have to bear in mind the fact that the tunnel proposal is much better than a proposal for just an airport rail link—it will be a transport link and a hub.
The person was the first to have suffered such a serious and brutal attack in my constituency while I have been an MSP; I accept that members in other parts of the country are more aware of the problem than I am.
I am happy for that opinion to take account of the views of MSPs. It gives us the opportunity to get upstream of the issues and to influence the whole globalisation agenda.
A submission from the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities quoted an MSP at the Public Petitions Committee:"I am … very disturbed … that the charity benefits only people from the Jewish religion and with a Jewish background.
In our next panel, we have Stewart Maxwell MSP, David Cullum, of the Scottish Parliament's non-Executive bills unit, and Catherine Scott, of the Scottish Parliament's directorate of legal services.
We have a very powerful lobby that is selectively using evidence to stop a piece of legislation that is overwhelmingly supported by the public. The point is that we as MSPs and members of the committee must justify our decisions and it is useful for us to be able to present hard evidence to justify them.