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Meeting of the Parliament Tuesday 5 November 2019 Session 5 © Parliamentary copyright. Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Information on the Scottish Parliament’s copyright policy can be found on the website - www.parliament.scot or by contacting Public Information on 0131 348 5000 Tuesday 5 November 2019 CONTENTS Col. TIME FOR REFLECTION ....................................................................................................................................... 1 BUSINESS MOTION ............................................................................................................................................. 3 Motion moved—[Graeme Dey]—and agreed to. TOPICAL QUESTION TIME ................................................................................................................................... 4 Supervised Drug Consumption Facility ........................................................................................................ 4 Prison Officers (Stress-related Sickness Absence) ...................................................................................... 6 Deaths Abroad (Support for Families) .......................................................................................................... 9 UEFA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP (SCOTLAND) BILL: STAGE 1 ......................................................................... 12 Motion moved—[Ben Macpherson]. The Minister for Europe, Migration and International Development (Ben Macpherson) ............................ 12 Joan McAlpine (South Scotland) (SNP) ..................................................................................................... 16 Rachael Hamilton (Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) (Con) ................................................................. 20 Claire Baker (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) ................................................................................................ 23 Ross Greer (West Scotland) (Green) ......................................................................................................... 27 Mike Rumbles (North East Scotland) (LD) ................................................................................................. 30 Annabelle Ewing (Cowdenbeath) (SNP) .................................................................................................... 32 Brian Whittle (South Scotland) (Con) ......................................................................................................... 34 Stuart McMillan (Greenock and Inverclyde) (SNP) .................................................................................... 36 James Kelly (Glasgow) (Lab) ..................................................................................................................... 39 Richard Lyle (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP) ........................................................................................... 41 Miles Briggs (Lothian) (Con) ....................................................................................................................... 43 James Dornan (Glasgow Cathcart) (SNP) ................................................................................................. 45 Bill Kidd (Glasgow Anniesland) (SNP)........................................................................................................ 48 Claire Baker ................................................................................................................................................ 50 Alexander Stewart (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) ...................................................................................... 53 Ben Macpherson......................................................................................................................................... 55 SCOTTISH PARLIAMENTARY CORPORATE BODY ................................................................................................ 60 DECISION TIME ................................................................................................................................................ 62 LOCH LOMOND ................................................................................................................................................ 63 Motion debated—[Ross Greer]. Ross Greer (West Scotland) (Green) ......................................................................................................... 63 Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab) ................................................................................................................ 67 Rona Mackay (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (SNP) ..................................................................................... 69 Maurice Corry (West Scotland) (Con) ........................................................................................................ 70 Mark Ruskell (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Green) ........................................................................................... 72 The Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment (Mairi Gougeon) ........................................... 73 1 5 NOVEMBER 2019 2 darkness, because they, and I, believe in God, Scottish Parliament who offers hope in Jesus Christ, and a life that can be deeper, richer and full of a freedom that has Tuesday 5 November 2019 little to do with circumstance and everything to do with community. [The Presiding Officer opened the meeting at We stand on the shoulders of those who have 14:00] gone before us, daring to build on their example of faith, and engendering hope that strives for a Time for Reflection better future. [Applause.] The Presiding Officer (Ken Macintosh): Good afternoon. Our first item of business today is time for reflection, for which our leader is the Rev Duncan J Macpherson, who is senior chaplain Scotland and deputy assistant chaplain general for the 51st Infantry Brigade. The Rev Duncan J Macpherson: Presiding Officer, members of the Scottish Parliament, it is a deep honour to offer this reflection before remembrance Sunday and armistice day. It will be no surprise that those opportunities in the life of our nation and her communities to pause, reflect on the horrors of war, honour the fallen and dedicate ourselves to a better future, are significant to me, as a Church of Scotland minister who has been called to serve as an army chaplain. It has been my privilege to lead acts of remembrance in parishes and in military service in communities here, overseas and on operations. I am deeply proud that Scots, wherever they are, still wish to pause to remember who and what has formed their past, influences their present and shapes their future. In the darkest hours and most desperate of circumstances, there are people of hope whom we can look to as examples: the Rev Donald Caske, the “Tartan Pimpernel” of the Scots Kirk in Paris in 1940, who operated an escape route for service personnel, and who was caught and interned in France and Italy; the Rev Murdo Ewen MacDonald, who was another Church of Scotland minister who volunteered to serve in North Africa, was wounded and captured, sent to Stalag Luft III, and there cared for American prisoners of war and played a part in the great escape; or even a previous moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Very Rev J Fraser McLuskey MC, who was deployed from Scotland in 1944 to parachute behind enemy lines in France with the Special Air Service, as their chaplain. What was it about those Scots that enabled them to endure under interrogation, to live in appalling conditions, and to serve behind enemy lines facing threat and constant danger that called them to risk all in service, alongside countless thousands from Scotland and beyond? I believe that it is the same thing that keeps the armed forces serving now—hope. It is hope that we will, when called upon, make a difference for the better. Those chaplains dared to hope in 3 5 NOVEMBER 2019 4 Business Motion Topical Question Time 14:03 14:04 The Presiding Officer (Ken Macintosh): The Supervised Drug Consumption Facility next item of business is consideration of business motion S5M-19729, in the name of Graeme Dey, 1. Tom Arthur (Renfrewshire South) (SNP): on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, setting out To ask the Scottish Government what its response a revision to today’s business. is to the Scottish Affairs Committee’s report recommendation to introduce legislation to lawfully Motion moved, pilot a supervised drug consumption facility in That the Parliament agrees to the following revision to Scotland. (S5T-01874) the programme of business for Tuesday 5 November 2019— The Minister for Public Health, Sport and Wellbeing (Joe FitzPatrick): The Scottish Affairs delete Committee inquiry into problem drug use in 5.00 pm Decision Time Scotland supports our view that what we face in and insert terms of drug deaths is an emergency, and that the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 should be amended 4.35 pm Decision Time—[Graeme Dey.] to allow a range of responses focused on public Motion agreed to. health. The need for that type of service, and the evidence that supports it, was further reinforced The Presiding Officer: The motion brings during the inquiry. Such facilities can save lives, forward today’s decision time to 25 to 5. so I urge the United Kingdom Government to take the necessary steps either to support a pilot facility or to devolve the powers to Scotland so that this Parliament can take action to save lives. Tom Arthur: The minister and other members
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