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The Scottish Greens will support the sanction recommended by the committee, and Mr Matheson should be held accountable for his actions. Beyond that, I will lay out our concerns about the committee process in this case and in more general terms.
As you are aware, through the emergency bill, we are taking exceptional measures in exceptional circumstances, and we will lay out the detail to Parliament in short order.
We have recognised that although the route by which I got my job is unusual, my job is to be entirely accountable to the board in exactly the same way as any other chief executive would be accountable.
In short, I do not believe that the current criminal law adequately takes account of the impact of the desecration of a war memorial on the people and communities for whom the memorial has significant and symbolic meaning.
A serious look needs to be taken at college governance. Accountability between principals and their boards needs to be looked at at a parliamentary level and by the Scottish Government.
Thank you for setting that out. Have you taken account of the numbers in the backlog during the Covid-19 period when considering the number of judges that might be required?
I do not know whether the Government has considered that or taken it into account. I go back to the point that I made in answer to Mr Fraser, that individual companies have to assess how they take forward their working environment as a consequence of the pandemic.
She highlighted that, were that to be considered, there would be a number of issues to take into account, including enforcement, ensuring independence of child advocacy services and costs.