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Eleanor Scott: Green Chamber
29 Mar 2007
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Long-term Conditions Strategy
I thank the minister for that answer.Can he explain how the strategy will reflect the full range of young people's needs, particularly by ensuring that it encompasses services beyond the national health service—for example, social work, education, eventual employment, psycholo...
5. Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
29 Mar 2007
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Long-term Conditions Strategy
To ask the Scottish Executive how its planned long-term conditions strategy will address the distinct needs of children and young people living with long-term conditions, and the needs of their parents. (S2O-12566)
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Committee
28 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
I will vote against Jamie McGrigor's motion and support the designation because we have clear obligations under the habitats directive. I take issue with what Richard Lochhead said—I do not have the details to hand, but there are precedents for action being taken at European l...
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
When I was a community paediatrician, I came across perhaps four or five cases—I was trying to count them—of boys who had Duchenne muscular dystrophy. I want to tell the story of one of them. I knew him from the moment of diagnosis, because he attended one of the schools for w...
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
21 Mar 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
Will the member explain which of the first four of his five concerns will have disappeared after the quinquennial review?
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
21 Mar 2007
Rights of Relatives to Damages (Mesothelioma) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
In my brief speech, I will record my party's support for the bill. This is a short, circumscribed but very important bill, which, because it has received support from all parties, will probably not make any headlines in tomorrow's newspapers.I, too, pay tribute to everyone who...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
21 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
It is a minor point. I am happy with the essential content of the order.
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Committee
21 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
I do not have any objection to the Inshore Fishing (Prohibited Methods of Fishing) (Loch Creran) Order 2007 (SSI 2007/185), but I could not find AQ and AR on the map. Perhaps I am being stupid and am staring at the area that is defined as being bounded by AQ and AR. I see AJ, ...
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
14 Mar 2007
Scots Trad Music Awards 2006
I, too, enjoyed the 2006 Hands Up for Trad event, as Rob Gibson well knows, because I was sitting with him at the same table. I know that the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport had intended to be there and would have enjoyed it greatly if she had been able to make it on t...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Annual Report
The draft report does not reflect the change of convener that resulted from our previous convener's promotion to the dizzy heights of deputy minister.
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Annual Report
The draft report does not mention specifically our videolink to Finland, which I thought was a highlight.
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Annual Report
It belongs with the other meetings.
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
I was most interested, from a political perspective, in the list of objectives for the purposes of the national waste management plan. I am happy about most of the objectives that are listed, but I am slightly concerned that one objective is:"Encouraging … the use of waste as ...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
Finally, with closer ministerial involvement in waste, can we consider revising some of the sillier definitions of waste?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
The schedule mentions encouraging"the use of waste as a source of energy"as an objective. Will pressure be put on authorities that do not want to go down that road?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
Were the existing area waste plans only for municipal waste?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
I am happy with the buck stopping with the minister. I was not clear whether the draft regulations refer to all Scotland's waste or only to municipal waste.
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
Currently, those areas produce their waste plans from the bottom up. Does the national waste management plan take a top-down approach, telling those waste areas what to do?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
My questions will probably be daft-lassie questions, as I found it difficult to understand what the draft regulations were saying. Are we keeping the 11 existing waste areas?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
I was not going to say anything about dogs, but I will say a little bit because they have very much been the focus of the debate. However, there are many other procedures being permitted under the regulations that would bear close scrutiny but which have not had it. I would ta...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
I am glad to have that clarification.
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
It is under "Condition"—
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
Pinioning is a major procedure that involves removing some of the bones in the wing of a game bird. I understand that the procedure is usually undertaken on reared pheasants so that they do not fly away before they are ready to be shot. For most procedures that are major for t...
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
I have two brief questions about birds. The regulations say that beak trimming and debeaking of hens can be performed only until 31 December 2010. Is that because battery cages are about to be outlawed in the European Union?
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
01 Mar 2007
Multiple Sclerosis (Tysabri)
I thank Tricia Marwick for bringing forward the motion for debate. I also thank those from the MS Society who briefed us yesterday and the consultant neurologist who came along and told us about treating patients with severe and aggressive multiple sclerosis.As we have heard, ...
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
01 Mar 2007
Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Bill
I add my thanks to everybody who was involved in producing the bill, to people who gave evidence to the committee and to people who lobbied us—even those with whom I did not end up agreeing.The bill was not generally controversial and it attracted an awful lot of agreement. Mu...
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
01 Mar 2007
Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
This issue was discussed extensively at stage 2. The Environment and Rural Development Committee recommended in its stage 1 report that the Executive introduce a ban on live vertebrate baits, which it said that it was minded to do.For me, two issues are involved. The first, wh...
Eleanor Scott: Green Chamber
28 Feb 2007
Organic Farming
We think that about £23 million would meet the true demand. As for Mr Arbuckle's intervention on an earlier speaker, saying that people can farm organically without the organic aid scheme is like saying that people can farm conventionally without single farm payments.Further e...
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
28 Feb 2007
Organic Farming
Our amendment echoes the terms of Sarah Boyack's motion on organic food fortnight, which was debated last September and which called on the Scottish Executive to step up its support for Scotland's organic movement. I hope that Ms Boyack, in her ministerial role, will continue ...
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Committee
28 Feb 2007
Petitions
The past 10 years was a timescale that SPT Marine Services set. If somebody had asked about its record over the past 15 years, the incident in question would have been included. The course of action that the convener has outlined is eminently sensible and I go along with it co...
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
22 Feb 2007
Clyde Fishermen
I am happy to debate the motion in the name of Phil Gallie because it relates directly to work that the Environment and Rural Development Committee, of which I am deputy convener, has been doing lately. I have not signed the motion because, although I agree with some of it and...
Eleanor Scott: Green Chamber
22 Feb 2007
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Waste Management (Island Communities)
I thank the minister for that list of positives. However, there is one area in which the proximity principle cannot be applied—waste oil. Prior to implementation of the European directive on the incineration of waste, garage premises could be heated using recovered oil in smal...
4. Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
22 Feb 2007
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Waste Management (Island Communities)
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is promoting the application of the proximity principle for waste management in island communities. (S2O-12121)
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Committee
21 Feb 2007
Subordinate Legislation
Instruments such as these sometimes introduce us to a world of which we previously knew nothing. I felt a bit like that when I was reading about shark finning. I had a horrible vision of sharks being finned before they were properly dead. It is one of those issues on which one...
Eleanor Scott: Green Chamber
14 Feb 2007
Coeliac Disease
Too much information.
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
14 Feb 2007
Coeliac Disease
I, too, would like to thank Margo MacDonald and Coeliac UK for this morning's presentation and for securing this debate. I will start on a serious note and finish on a perhaps lighter note.I was able to attend this morning's presentation. We heard harrowing stories, among whic...
Eleanor Scott: Green Chamber
14 Feb 2007
Making the National Health Service Local
No. I am sorry, but I am in my last minute.The BMA continues:"The BMA believes that no significant changes to existing hospitals services should take place before there is agreement of clear plans for alternative services in the community, and full details of the interim arran...
Eleanor Scott: Green Chamber
14 Feb 2007
Making the National Health Service Local
Absolutely. I am not saying that I would not have closed any hospital or hospital unit. I have never said that. What I am saying is that there is a failure of engagement with the communities whose health needs the facilities are supposed to meet. The problem is not whether I t...
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Chamber
14 Feb 2007
Making the National Health Service Local
Because I am going to quote from the British Medical Association's briefing later, I should declare that I remain a member of that organisation. Nobody is going to argue with the concept of making the NHS more local while retaining more centralised services for specialist area...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
14 Feb 2007
Petition
We should ask the minister what the Executive has done to inform the communities that could be affected by the national park of any possible benefits to their areas. It is right that people who are suspicious of the idea and who are protesting against it should have a voice. H...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
14 Feb 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
Yes.
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
14 Feb 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
What about community representation from the area that you propose should be included in the park?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
14 Feb 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
You have talked about the bill addressing questions of principle, one of which is fairness of representation. At the moment, of the 10 local authority representatives on the board of the park authority, five are from Highland Council. Your bill would reduce the number of Highl...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
14 Feb 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
In your opening statement, you said that the larger park that was considered would have weakened the park's "coherent identity". Will you amplify a little what you said?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
14 Feb 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
If the quinquennial review suggested that the park's boundaries should be extended along the lines of the proposal in John Swinney's bill, the same reasons for which the Executive objects to the proposal would still apply. There would still be a plan with a long shelf-life tha...
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Committee
14 Feb 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
I will start with a question of fact—I should probably know this, but I do not. Once the park plan is approved, for how long will it last?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
07 Feb 2007
Petitions
There has been a lot to take in, particularly for those of us who are not from Fife and who have not been heavily involved in the issue. I would like to have a bit of time to reflect on what we have heard today. We might well want to ask several follow-up questions, perhaps of...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
07 Feb 2007
Petitions
We have focused on the role of Forth Ports in the run-up to ship-to-ship transfers possibly happening, but I am also interested in your role as a competent authority should the transfers happen and something goes wrong. We have heard that the clean-up of any onshore oil would ...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
07 Feb 2007
Petitions
What monitoring arrangements would there be?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
07 Feb 2007
Petitions
How far out would that happen?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
07 Feb 2007
Petitions
You mentioned deballasting in connection with Scapa Flow. What would be the arrangements for deballasting in the Firth of Forth?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
07 Feb 2007
Petitions
I am not clear about something Captain Baker said in response to Andrew Arbuckle. He seemed to suggest that the Scapa Flow and Firth of Forth model of ship-to-ship transfer is safe and desirable, but that when the procedure takes place outside the 12-mile limit it is not. To s...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
07 Feb 2007
Petitions
So although the Executive has not had a role in deciding whether the proposal goes ahead, it would be the body that would be found to be in breach of the habitats directive.
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
07 Feb 2007
Petitions
If ship-to-ship transfer goes ahead and is subsequently found to be in breach of the habitats directive, what would the consequences be? What would be done to whom as a result of the directive having been breached?
Eleanor Scott (Highlands and Islands) (Green): Green Committee
07 Feb 2007
Petitions
As one of the few MSPs here today who is not from Fife, I hope that people will forgive me if I am behind the times on some of the issues. I am just learning about the issue that my colleagues have lived with for a while.I recognise that a competent authority must make the dec...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
05 Feb 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
That is a separate issue, is it not?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
05 Feb 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
We are in Blair Atholl today not because SNH wants its recommendations to be implemented but because the communities in this area want to be included in the park and there has been a local campaign on the matter. Is anyone aware of community campaigns for the inclusion of othe...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
05 Feb 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
I have a quick question on the boundary. The map shows the areas that SNH originally recommended for inclusion in the park, but which were not included. They include the big bit that is the subject of the bill, three substantial but much smaller bits and some titchy little bit...
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
05 Feb 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
To move one pillar?
Eleanor Scott: Green Committee
05 Feb 2007
Cairngorms National Park Boundary Bill: Stage 1
What, roughly, is the cost of moving one granite pillar?