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• Scottish Parliament: Limitation (Childhood Abuse) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 22 Jun 2017

  I rise to support Oliver Mundell’s amendment 1. Without a commitment that adequate resourcing will be available, there is a very real danger that the much anticipated and eagerly awaited aims of the bill will not be realised. There is no need at this stage to quantify the amount, and a commitment to adequately resource would not delay the introduction of the measures. Frankly, if the...

• Scottish Parliament: Limitation (Childhood Abuse) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 22 Jun 2017

  Will the minister take an intervention?

• Scottish Parliament: Limitation (Childhood Abuse) (Scotland) Bill 22 Jun 2017

  I welcome the bill, which aims to increase access to justice for survivors of childhood abuse. I pay tribute to those survivors, who have over many years lobbied for the three-year limitation period for historical childhood abuse claims, also known as the time bar, to be abolished. As Rona Mackay and Mary Fee said, it took considerable courage for those survivors to give evidence to the...

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Entered the Scottish Parliament on 1 May 2003 — Election

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