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Former Scottish National Party MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley

Entered the Scottish Parliament on 6 May 1999 — Election

Left the Scottish Parliament on 23 March 2016 — Election

Also represented South of Scotland

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Recent appearances

• Scottish Parliament: Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 17 Mar 2016

  I will speak to amendments 1 to 4. At the behest of Homeless Action Scotland, I sought to amend the bill at stage 2, so that a tenant need only tell the landlord about a person aged 16 or over residing in the property if that property was that person’s only or principal home. Paragraph 3 of the schedule is welcome, as it gives landlords the power to prevent overcrowding and sub-letting, but...

• Scottish Parliament: Forth Road Bridge Inquiry 15 Mar 2016

  Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. On behalf of the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee, I am pleased to open the debate on the committee’s inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the closure of the Forth road bridge. It is clear that the bridge’s closure on 3 December last year caused widespread disruption and frustration for the travelling public and had a...

• Scottish Parliament: Forth Road Bridge Inquiry 15 Mar 2016

  I thank the minister for that helpful intervention. As part of its inquiry, the committee was keen to establish whether the defect that led to the closure—a crack in part of the bridge mechanism that is known as the truss end link, which was subsequently found to have been caused by a seized pin—could have been identified earlier and the closure somehow prevented. We were advised that,...

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