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I hope that members of all parties will live up to what they are saying to members of the public and institutions outside the Parliament and vote for the motion.
It is time that we allowed those decent public servants to put the affair behind them and to get on with the task of rebuilding their lives. Justice should not just be seen to be done; it should be done.
Even with the smaller cohorts of staff, which you mentioned, we are still talking about thousands of people moving to a totally new pay system that has not yet gone live; therefore, we are having to make projections and assumptions.
This is a period of development for environmental legislation, so there could not be a definitive statement at the moment. We all live with that. Yes. However, you know of specific examples of the Government making things very difficult by being contradictory in what it is asking you to do.
On cross-border issues, we must be sensitive to the fact that the border is a land border and that people who live 10m to either side of it share the same culture and the same ideas.
Children who seek asylum and come from communities where FGM is extremely common do not have the advantage—if you want to call it that—that people from such communities who have been living in Scotland have in knowing that FGM is illegal under our law.
Are you saying that clinicians have the right to prescribe in the best interests of their patients, as long as a drug has been approved, so boards must live with that? That is absolutely the case, yes.
Within the suite of priorities, the improving attainment targets are about ensuring that our young people are leaving school with the qualifications and suite of attributes that they require to be able to contribute not only to the prosperity of their lives but to the prosperity of Scotland as a whole.
Clearly, having the code of practice would make the lives of all of us easier and more focused, because it would provide us with a grasp of the issues.