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In my first ever lecture in economics, my economics lecturer said to me, "If you want to be an economist, you must forget everything you ever said or thought about politics." I have tried to live my life exactly according to that principle.
However, I am not blind to the sensitivities of local needs. As I said before, I live in a part of Scotland with needs that are very different from those of Edinburgh, and I would like my area to prosper, too.
I applaud the work of the tripartite working group. The wishes of salmon farmers to live in sustainable co-existence with wild fisheries must be aided by the Executive.The salmon farming industry is important.
I have made the proposal because I realise from my own experience how traumatic it is to enter someone's home to section them or to have them removed for treatment because they are self-harming.We must remember that the numbers of elderly people and people with special needs in the community will grow. Many elderly people who live in their own homes are ter...
What we expect in circumstances such as I described is quite different from what we expect after a minor infringement of a regulation, procedure or process. We are real people who live in the real world and we expect apologies to be fit for the circumstances.
Information will be secured for the nation and that information will be made accessible to those of us who live in Scotland and to visitors from abroad.At its meeting on 14 November, the committee decided to invite me to explore a non-legislative route to achieving the objectives in my bill.