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Meeting of the Parliament MEETING OF THE PARLIAMENT Wednesday 26 January 2011 Session 3 © Parliamentary copyright. Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Information on the Scottish Parliament’s copyright policy can be found on the website - www.scottish.parliament.uk or by contacting Public Information on 0131 348 5000 Wednesday 26 January 2011 CONTENTS Col. TIME FOR REFLECTION ............................................................................................................................... 32559 BUSINESS MOTION ..................................................................................................................................... 32561 Motion moved—[Bruce Crawford]—and agreed to. The Minister for Parliamentary Business (Bruce Crawford) ................................................................. 32561 BUDGET (SCOTLAND) (NO 5) BILL: STAGE 1 .............................................................................................. 32562 Motion moved—[John Swinney]. The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth (John Swinney) ..................................... 32562 Andrew Welsh (Angus) (SNP) .............................................................................................................. 32568 Andy Kerr (East Kilbride) (Lab) ............................................................................................................. 32571 Derek Brownlee (South of Scotland) (Con) .......................................................................................... 32575 Jeremy Purvis (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale) (LD) ................................................................... 32578 Linda Fabiani (Central Scotland) (SNP) ............................................................................................... 32581 Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab) .......................................................................................................... 32583 Gavin Brown (Lothians) (Con) .............................................................................................................. 32586 Kenneth Gibson (Cunninghame North) (SNP) ..................................................................................... 32588 Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD) .............................................................................................................. 32591 Des McNulty (Clydebank and Milngavie) (Lab) .................................................................................... 32594 Shirley-Anne Somerville (Lothians) (SNP) ........................................................................................... 32596 Duncan McNeil (Greenock and Inverclyde) (Lab) ................................................................................ 32598 Joe FitzPatrick (Dundee West) (SNP) .................................................................................................. 32600 Mike Rumbles (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) (LD).................................................................. 32603 Malcolm Chisholm (Edinburgh North and Leith) (Lab) ......................................................................... 32605 Willie Coffey (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP) ................................................................................... 32607 Patrick Harvie (Glasgow) (Green) ........................................................................................................ 32610 James Kelly (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab) ............................................................................................. 32612 Margo MacDonald (Lothians) (Ind) ....................................................................................................... 32614 Tom McCabe (Hamilton South) (Lab)................................................................................................... 32616 Jeremy Purvis ....................................................................................................................................... 32617 Derek Brownlee .................................................................................................................................... 32620 David Whitton (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (Lab) ................................................................................ 32623 John Swinney ....................................................................................................................................... 32627 BUSINESS MOTION ..................................................................................................................................... 32632 Motion moved—[Bruce Crawford]—and agreed to. DECISION TIME .......................................................................................................................................... 32634 POINT OF ORDER ....................................................................................................................................... 32637 CAR SHARING (NORTH EAST SCOTLAND) ................................................................................................... 32638 Motion debated—[Alison McInnes]. Alison McInnes (North East Scotland) (LD) .......................................................................................... 32638 Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP) .................................................................................... 32641 Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab) ............................................................................................. 32642 Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con) .......................................................................................... 32643 The Minister for Transport and Infrastructure (Keith Brown) ................................................................ 32645 32559 26 JANUARY 2011 32560 The place for hope initiative marks a new way of Scottish Parliament doing things. It is about offering methods that do not involve the adversarial and about working with Meeting of the Parliament people to resolve difficulties. It means being a non-anxious presence to assist in relationship Wednesday 26 January 2011 building. One of Scotland’s leading mediators, John Sturrock, firmly believes that Scotland can [The Presiding Officer opened the meeting at build on its historical reputation as a place to 14:30] debate new ideas and solve challenging problems to become what William Ury—one of the global Time for Reflection authorities on mediation—calls a third-side nation. May I draw to a close with a suggestion? I The Presiding Officer (Alex Fergusson): suggest that we seize the moment to contribute to Good afternoon. As always, the first item of a new Scottish enlightenment that will enable business is time for reflection. I am delighted that Scots if not to run the world, at least to change it. our time for reflection leader today is the Right How about looking at each other in a new way? Rev John Christie, Moderator of the General We should remind ourselves of one of the greatest Assembly of the Church of Scotland. ethical statements of all time. In one form or The Right Rev John Christie (Moderator of another, it is found in most faiths and none but, as the General Assembly of the Church of I am sure that members would expect, I will quote Scotland): Good afternoon, everyone. I thank the Jesus: Presiding Officer and his colleagues for the “Do to others as you would that they to you would do.” invitation to speak at time for reflection. How that ethic, firmly grasped, would enlighten us In a trailer for a television documentary on all. Lachlan Macquarie—Australia’s first governor- general—that is to be broadcast this evening, Professor Tom Devine says: “England ruled the Empire—the Scots ran it”. Pithily, he describes the worldwide influence of the Scot. There are all kinds of reasons for such influence, for example the Scottish reformation, the Scottish enlightenment and the emigrations of the late 18th and 19th centuries. In my year as moderator, one of my commitments is to be an advocate for the joint initiative of the Church of Scotland Guild and of the ministries council, which is called a place for hope. It seeks to develop methods of conflict transformation in which confrontation is not the first option. Through mediation, people can strive to find better ways of resolving conflict so that relationships are repaired and opportunities are created for new constructive ways of working for the future. Hope not only springs eternal in the human breast but features in early literature. The apostle Paul reminds us that, with faith and love, hope is one of the things that last forever. In a recent correspondence column of The Guardian Weekly, a writer who reflected on Pandora’s box and the hope that was left in it said: “The activation of Hope in Pandora’s box for the survival of our species will depend on two improbabilities. First ... the curbing of our testosterone-driven tendencies to homicidal mania, promoted by ideological bigotry and the power of the military-industrial complex. Second should be a reduction of hubris and implementation of our responsibilities to the biosphere.” 32561 26 JANUARY 2011 32562 Business Motion Budget (Scotland) (No 5) Bill: Stage 1 The Presiding Officer (Alex Fergusson): The next item of business is consideration of business The Presiding Officer (Alex Fergusson): The motion S3M-7789, in the name of Bruce Crawford, next item of business is a debate on motion S3M- on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, which sets 7771,
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