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Official Report Meeting date: 27 August 2020

Equalities and Human Rights Committee 27 August 2020

We have received apologies from Angela Constance, Mary Fee and Alex Cole-Hamilton. The committee again pays tribute to all the organisations in the equalities and human rights sector for their continued dedicated service and hard work in what continue to be very difficult and challenging times.

Official Report Meeting date: 23 June 2020

Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 23 June 2020

Recently, I saw a cartoon that I think was by Mary Annaïse Heglar that showed a boxing ring, with planet earth being pummelled by a muscular figure representing the coronavirus in what was labelled the “preliminary round”.

Official Report Meeting date: 27 May 2020

Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 27 May 2020

This week, we were contacted by a lady in Glasgow called Sandra O’Neill. Sadly, her mother, Mary, died from Covid-19 on 8 April at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel.

Official Report Meeting date: 28 January 2020

Meeting of the Parliament 28 January 2020

It was mechanised mass murder in cold blood, deploying technology that Germany had perfected. Mary Miller notes in her book on Jane Haining that, in the month in which Jane died, the commandant in charge of the crematorium at Auschwitz ordered sophisticated sieving machinery so that larger pieces of bone could be separated from the cinders of human beings t...

Official Report Meeting date: 4 December 2019

Meeting of the Parliament 04 December 2019

The publication of the “Fairer Scotland Action Plan” is a welcome and comprehensive addition to the debate on how we can collectively improve our situation, with the action plan detailing the actions that are necessary for us to do so. The foreword to the report by Marie-Therese Martin and Susan McMahon, who are poverty truth commissioners, encapsulates ...

Official Report Meeting date: 29 January 2019

Meeting of the Parliament 29 January 2019

For Baker, Claire (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) Beamish, Claudia (South Scotland) (Lab) Cole-Hamilton, Alex (Edinburgh Western) (LD) Dugdale, Kezia (Lothian) (Lab) Fee, Mary (West Scotland) (Lab) Findlay, Neil (Lothian) (Lab) Finnie, John (Highlands and Islands) (Green) Greer, Ross (West Scotland) (Green) Griffin, Mark (Central Scotland) (Lab) Har...

Official Report Meeting date: 8 January 2019

Meeting of the Parliament 08 January 2019

For Baillie, Jackie (Dumbarton) (Lab) Baker, Claire (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) Balfour, Jeremy (Lothian) (Con) Ballantyne, Michelle (South Scotland) (Con) Beamish, Claudia (South Scotland) (Lab) Bibby, Neil (West Scotland) (Lab) Bowman, Bill (North East Scotland) (Con) Briggs, Miles (Lothian) (Con) Burnett, Alexander (Aberdeenshire West) (Con) Cameron, Donald (Highlands and Islands) (Con) Carlaw, Jackson (Eastwood) (Con) Carson, Finlay (Galloway and West Dumfries) (Con) Chapman, Peter (North East Scotland) (Con) Cole-Hamilton, Alex (Edinburgh Western) (LD) Corry, Maurice (West Scotland) (Con) Dugdale, Kezia (Lothian) (Lab) Fee, Mary...

Official Report Meeting date: 30 October 2018

Meeting of the Parliament 30 October 2018

For Baillie, Jackie (Dumbarton) (Lab) Baker, Claire (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) Balfour, Jeremy (Lothian) (Con) Ballantyne, Michelle (South Scotland) (Con) Beamish, Claudia (South Scotland) (Lab) Bibby, Neil (West Scotland) (Lab) Bowman, Bill (North East Scotland) (Con) Briggs, Miles (Lothian) (Con) Burnett, Alexander (Aberdeenshire West) (Con) Cameron, Donald (Highlands and Islands) (Con) Carson, Finlay (Galloway and West Dumfries) (Con) Chapman, Peter (North East Scotland) (Con) Cole-Hamilton, Alex (Edinburgh Western) (LD) Corry, Maurice (West Scotland) (Con) Dugdale, Kezia (Lothian) (Lab) Findlay, Neil (Lothian) (Lab) Fraser, Murdo (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) Grant, Rhoda (Highlands and Islands) (Lab) Gray, Iain (East Lothian) (Lab) Greene, Jamie (West Scotland) (Con) Griffin, Mark (Central Scotland) (Lab) Harris, Alison (Central Scotland) (Con) Halcro Johnston, Jamie (Highlands and Islands) (Con) Kelly, James (Glasgow) (Lab) Kerr, Liam (North East Scotland) (Con) Lennon, Monica (Central Scotland) (Lab) Leonard, Richard (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lindhurst, Gordon (Lothian) (Con) Lockhart, Dean (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) Macdonald, Lewis (North East Scotland) (Lab) Mason, Tom (North East Scotland) (Con) McArthur, Liam (Orkney Islands) (LD) McNeill, Pauline (Glasgow) (Lab) Mitchell, Margaret (Central Scotland) (Con) Mountain, Edward (Highlands and Islands) (Con) Rowley, Alex (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) Rumbles, Mike (North East Scotland) (LD) Sarwar, Anas (Glasgow) (Lab) Scott, John (Ayr) (Con) Simpson, Graham (Central Scotland) (Con) Smith, Elaine (Central Scotland) (Lab) Smyth, Colin (South Scotland) (Lab) Stewart, Alexander (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) Stewart, David (Highlands and Islands) (Lab) Tomkins, Adam (Glasgow) (Con) Wells, Annie (Glasgow) (Con) Whittle, Brian (South Scotland) (Con) Against Adam, George (Paisley) (SNP) Adamson, Clare (Motherwell and Wishaw) (SNP) Allan, Dr Alasdair (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP) Arthur, Tom (Renfrewshire South) (SNP) Beattie, Colin (Midlothian North and Musselburgh) (SNP) Brown, Keith (Clackmannanshire and Dunblane) (SNP) Coffey, Willie (Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley) (SNP) Constance, Angela (Almond Valley) (SNP) Crawford, Bruce (Stirling) (SNP) Cunningham, Roseanna (Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) (SNP) Denham, Ash (Edinburgh Eastern) (SNP) Dey, Graeme (Angus South) (SNP) Doris, Bob (Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) (SNP) Dornan, James (Glasgow Cathcart) (SNP) Ewing, Annabelle (Cowdenbeath) (SNP) Ewing, Fergus (Inverness and Nairn) (SNP) Fabiani, Linda (East Kilbride) (SNP) Fee, Mary...

Official Report Meeting date: 26 September 2018

Meeting of the Parliament 26 September 2018

Kezia Dugdale asked me to raise my voice, which I reassured her I will always do. Mary Fee reminded me that rights can sometimes be undermined in so-called developed countries, so we must never be complacent.

Official Report Meeting date: 12 June 2018

Justice Committee 12 June 2018

I am an MSP for the West Scotland region. I am an academic at Queen Mary University London, but I am originally from Northern Ireland.

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