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It is a major step forward that is welcomed by organisations that deal with sexual orientation issues, but it is crucial that we get new legislation right. If it is not possible to re-examine the question, I am minded to support Nora Radcliffe's amendment.
I make no judgment on the rights or wrongs of the maternity services review in Glasgow or on the siting of a secure unit anywhere in the west of Scotland.We have to get such decisions right and we rely on the NHS to get them right.
Some solicitors might be employed as safeguarders in one case and as legal representatives in another and they would get confused about the basis on which they were operating.
I would like to support Lewis Macdonald's comments. By not getting on with this, we are in danger of encouraging MSPs to lodge a motion when no such motion is before Parliament.