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🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve the resilience of island communities. (S7O-00006)
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I thank the cabinet secretary for that response, and I welcome her to her post. I look forward to working with her. In the past year alone, communities across Orkney and Shetland have suffered multiple subsea cable failures, including a month-long broadband outage affecting Orkney’s northern isles in the spring. On each occasion, households, businesses and essential services have been hit...
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Loganair has announced plans to cut services between Inverness and Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles. It cites a lack of support from Government-owned Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd as a reason for the cuts, which could get even worse if further reassurances are not provided in the coming days. The routes are lifelines for all three communities, and cuts will affect all those who...
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I congratulate Mr Currie on his first speech, and I welcome the minister back to her position, which I know that she is absolutely passionate about. I also strongly associate myself with Miles Briggs’s wise advice at the beginning of his speech. At the risk of potentially traumatising Jackie Baillie, I vividly recall being in the Nezahualcóyotl stadium on the outskirts of Mexico...
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[Made a request to intervene.]
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For the record, while I was in the Nezahualcóyotl stadium, I was exasperated, but I do not think that I was sweating overly.
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Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I welcome you to your post and I hope that you find the role as rewarding as I certainly did over the preceding five years. I also offer my congratulations to the cabinet secretary. I may not have known him for quite as long as some members in the chamber have, but I have known him for a good many years, and I like and respect him enormously....
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As we have already heard, the subsidies going into the energy sector across the board are wide and extensive. My argument is that the communities directly affected by such developments need to see the benefit not just through reduction of bills but through more strategic infrastructure that, to be frank, is not about new football parks or community halls; it is about strategic investment in...
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