Decision Time | Scottish Parliament debates
On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I could not connect to the app. I would have voted yes.
Health and Social Care | Scottish Parliament debates
[ Made a request to intervene .]
Health and Social Care | Scottish Parliament debates
First, those figures are neither misleading nor factually inaccurate. They were taken from data that has been published by Public Health Scotland. I will now focus on waiting times, because those are the most obvious sign of SNP failure. The fact that 840,000 Scots are languishing on waiting lists for tests, diagnosis or treatment is […]
Health and Social Care | Scottish Parliament debates
I think that this debate has been misnamed. It is entitled “A Vision for Health and Social Care in Scotland”, but this SNP Government has not had any vision for health and social care for the past 17 years. For those who do not believe me, here are the words of Audit Scotland from its […]
Michael Matheson | Scottish Parliament debates
I would be nothing other than careful, and everything that I have said is factual. The people of Scotland need to have a right to recall their MSPs, but, until that happens, I think that Michael Matheson should do the decent thing and consider his position. I move amendment S6M-13365.1, to insert at end: “, […]
Michael Matheson | Scottish Parliament debates
I am coming to a close, Presiding Officer.
Michael Matheson | Scottish Parliament debates
No, thank you. Her constituents recalled her, there was a by-election and the people of Rutherglen and Hamilton West elected Labour’s Michael Shanks by a resounding majority. They decided what should happen in those circumstances. So, it is right that we should rectify this omission. It is right that the people of Falkirk West should […]
Michael Matheson | Scottish Parliament debates
I will not dispute the information and data that has been given. That is the one time of the year that our constituents take a break and decide not to email us, so I struggle to understand how that could be achieved. As I said earlier—the public might not know this—we all get emails from […]
