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Meeting of the Parliament MEETING OF THE PARLIAMENT Wednesday 12 December 2001 (Afternoon) Session 1 £5.00 Parliamentary copyright. Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 2001. Applications for reproduction should be made in writing to the Copyright Unit, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, St Clements House, 2-16 Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BQ Fax 01603 723000, which is administering the copyright on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. Produced and published in Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body by The Stationery Office Ltd. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office is independent of and separate from the company now trading as The Stationery Office Ltd, which is responsible for printing and publishing Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body publications. CONTENTS Wednesday 12 December 2001 Debates Col. TIME FOR REFLECTION .................................................................................................................................... 4697 NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ........................................................................................................................... 4699 Motion moved—[Malcolm Chisholm]. Amendment moved—[Nicola Sturgeon]. Amendment moved—[Mary Scanlon]. The Minister for Health and Community Care (Malcolm Chisholm) .......................................................... 4699 Nicola Sturgeon (Glasgow) (SNP) ............................................................................................................. 4708 Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con) ............................................................................................ 4714 Mrs Margaret Smith (Edinburgh West) (LD) .............................................................................................. 4718 Susan Deacon (Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) (Lab) ......................................................................... 4723 Dorothy-Grace Elder (Glasgow) (SNP) ..................................................................................................... 4725 Margaret Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (Lab) ............................................................................... 4727 Roseanna Cunningham (Perth) (SNP) ...................................................................................................... 4728 Mr David Davidson (North-East Scotland) (Con) ...................................................................................... 4730 Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab) ............................................................................................... 4732 Brian Adam (North-East Scotland) (SNP) ................................................................................................. 4734 George Lyon (Argyll and Bute) (LD) .......................................................................................................... 4736 Tommy Sheridan (Glasgow) (SSP) ........................................................................................................... 4738 Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) ............................................................................................. 4739 Mr John McAllion (Dundee East) (Lab) ..................................................................................................... 4740 Mr Duncan Hamilton (Highlands and Islands) (SNP) ................................................................................ 4742 Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD) ................................................................................................................... 4743 Ben Wallace (North-East Scotland) (Con) ................................................................................................. 4745 Shona Robison (North-East Scotland) (SNP) ........................................................................................... 4747 The Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care (Hugh Henry) ........................................................ 4750 PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU MOTIONS ................................................................................................................ 4755 Motions moved—[Euan Robson]. DECISION TIME ............................................................................................................................................... 4756 ENVIRONMENT AND RURAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT OFFICES (CLOSURES) ........................................................ 4763 Motion debated—[Mr Brian Monteith]. Mr Brian Monteith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) ...................................................................................... 4763 Dr Sylvia Jackson (Stirling) (Lab) .............................................................................................................. 4766 Shona Robison (North-East Scotland) (SNP) ........................................................................................... 4767 Mr Keith Raffan (Mid Scotland and Fife) (LD) ........................................................................................... 4768 Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) ............................................................................................. 4770 Bruce Crawford (Mid Scotland and Fife) (SNP) ........................................................................................ 4771 The Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development (Allan Wilson) ......................................... 4773 4697 12 DECEMBER 2001 4698 Scottish Parliament English, to be integrated into our schools. Today, we have shared this time together. Last Wednesday 12 December 2001 summer, Govan High School held a multi-cultural event and some members of the Parliament (Afternoon) celebrated with us far into the night. I understand that it is usual to end this address [THE PRESIDING OFFICER opened the meeting at with a biblical quotation, but I will end with a 14:30] quotation from a politician. John F. Kennedy delivered the following words to the Canadian Parliament in 1961, but they apply equally to Time for Reflection Scotland’s relationship with England and the rest of the world: The Presiding Officer (Sir David Steel): To “Geography has made us neighbours, history has made lead our time for reflection, I welcome Neil us friends, economics has made us partners and necessity Morrison, who is a fifth-year pupil at Govan High has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined School, in Glasgow. together, let no man put asunder”. Neil Morrison (Govan High School, Glasgow): Thank you. Good afternoon, members of the Scottish Parliament. I am a fifth year pupil at Govan High School in Glasgow. When I was asked to lead time for reflection, I paused to reflect on what the Scottish Parliament is and what it means to me and the people of my community. For me, the Parliament is about leadership. We in Govan are a close-knit, patriotic community. We are proud of our past and clear about the future. Our school ethos reflects that, and we have strong leadership to help us reach our goals. It seems to me that those are also the aims that you have for the people of this country. As a teenager in Scotland today, I have many things to be thankful for, of which the Scottish Parliament is one. We need look back no further than 11 September and the dreadful attacks on the World Trade Center to recognise that we in Scotland are doing something right. Closer to home, there has been violent conflict in Ireland; and there is continuing violence in the West Bank. People of my age in Scotland have never witnessed such violence close at hand and we never want to. We recognise that conflict resolution is always better done on the floor of an institution such as this—whatever minor difficulties it might occasionally encounter—than with a bullet or a bomb. Last summer a Kurdish asylum seeker, Firsat Dag, was killed as he made his way home to a high-rise block on Glasgow’s Sighthill estate. That is not the Glasgow that I recognise or want. People from all faiths and persuasions have spoken at time for reflection and, through that, the Scottish Parliament is setting an example of co- existence and religious tolerance of which we can be proud. Govan High School is copying that example. We are host school to the bilingual support unit, which prepares young people from different backgrounds, whose first language is not 4699 12 DECEMBER 2001 4700 National Health Service condition-specific waiting times for key stages in the patient’s pathway in the national priority areas of cancer and heart disease. For example, by next The Presiding Officer (Sir David Steel): Our year, there will be a maximum wait of 24 weeks for main debate is on motion S1M-2538, in the name heart surgery following angiography. Recently, of Malcolm Chisholm, on “Our National Health— there has been much talk of patients waiting for Delivering Change”, and two amendments to that heart surgery in Scotland. Although I am motion. I invite members who want to take part in concerned about that, we should remember that at the debate to press their request-to-speak buttons the moment only 66 patients wait for more than six now. months. However, we shall ensure that our target is delivered next year and that no one waits for 14:33 longer than that length of time. In “Our National The Minister for Health and Community Care Health”, we set a further overarching target. By (Malcolm Chisholm): In two days’ time, it will be 2003, no one in Scotland will wait more than nine the first anniversary of the publication of “Our months for
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