Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at 9:51 am on 3 February 2005.
I do not believe that the Parliament should have responsibility for oil revenues as things stand. I certainly think, as Richard Lochhead knows, that there is an argument that the Parliament should have more financial responsibility. A lot more work needs to be done on that issue. The problem for the SNP is that it wants independence and it wants to balance the books, but the books do not balance as things stand.
We know all about the difficulties with the Scottish economy. To be fair, those difficulties are not of the SNP's making; the finger has to be