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Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
29 Mar 2007
First Minister's Question Time · Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings)
Hopefully.
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
29 Mar 2007
The Future of Scotland
Will the member give way?
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
29 Mar 2007
The Future of Scotland
I thank Mike Rumbles very much for giving way. Conservatives in the next session of Parliament will work with others—on an issue-by-issue basis. However, we will not break the promises that we make in our manifesto to coalesce with others who do not believe in the things in wh...
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
29 Mar 2007
The Future of Scotland
Will Mike Rumbles give way now?
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
29 Mar 2007
The Future of Scotland
Well, unfortunately—
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
29 Mar 2007
The Future of Scotland
Will Mike Rumbles give way on that point?
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
29 Mar 2007
The Future of Scotland
Following Nicol Stephen's comments about the collapse of the eastern bloc, will he join me in congratulating Margaret Thatcher and her Governments on playing a major part in bringing that about?
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
29 Mar 2007
The Future of Scotland
On independence, will the First Minister join me in congratulating the organisers of last Saturday's march for the union in Edinburgh? Some 12,000 people marched and more looked on. There was no trouble—there was only a celebration of the union. Will he endorse that march?
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
28 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill
I understand the point that Mary Mulligan makes about train companies not liking trains stopping. They think that too many stops reduce the number of customers on lines because they increase the time that trains spend on routes. However, in light of what has been said about th...
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
28 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill
I could not agree more with Janis Hughes. It is a pity that she will not be here to fight for crossrail in the next session of Parliament. I hope that the members who will be here will put their backs into ensuring that a bill on crossrail is the first transport bill to be int...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
28 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill
How strange life can be: here we are debating legislation in a building that neither you, Presiding Officer, nor I wanted, in a Parliament that you fought for and I fought against, on what for each of us is the eve of retirement from half a century or more of full-time employm...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
28 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Final Stage
I thank members very much indeed.First, I congratulate Linda Fabiani, the convener of the European and External Affairs Committee, on her award from the Italian Government. Applause.At consideration stage, the Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill Committee ame...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Legal Aid (Civil Cases)
Will the minister advise me what proportion of that £50-plus million has been paid under civil law for people who are incarcerated in Scottish prisons? If she can tell me that, can she advise me how many of them have made claims under the European convention on human rights?
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
First Minister's Question Time · Prime Minister (Meetings)
What about the ECHR?
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
First Minister's Question Time · Prime Minister (Meetings)
The question was about the ECHR.
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
Margo MacDonald also intervened on the subject of energy. Although energy is not one of the European Parliament's competences, it is an area in which nation states can work together without being bound by being in a particular union. Margo MacDonald's thoughts on Europe are wo...
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
The union that we have is worth preserving—a union that recognises the social needs and which allows the combined wealth of our nations to be provided to assist and back up across the British Isles. On issues such as defence, we should stand united and on issues such as foreig...
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
I can never refuse Margo MacDonald.
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
Certainly, he is an icon. In his youthful days, Burns wrote a poem entitled "Such a parcel of rogues in a nation" in which he said:"Fareweel to a' our Scotish fame,Fareweel our ancient glory;Fareweel even to the Scotish name,Sae fam'd in martial story!"We all know that Rabbie ...
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
Okay, but I cannot think of any lies that I have told about it.For a change, I agree with Mike Rumbles. I believe that Scotland could stand alone. The difference between us is that I do not believe that that would be in the best interests of Scotland, England, Wales or Norther...
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
I am obliged to do so, given what I have said.
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
It is a privilege to have worked with Jim Wallace for the past 15 years or so and to have participated in many debates with him at Westminster and in the Scottish Parliament. His speech on the union has probably been the best in the debate, principally because, rather than sla...
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
Alasdair Morrison paints a picture of a land of milk and honey in the Western Isles and says that nationalism does not work, so why have people in the Western Isles elected a nationalist member to Westminster?
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
The member referred to a number of small countries in the EU that have control over their economies, foreign affairs and so on. I understand that the nationalists support the European constitution, but if those countries sign up to the constitution, surely they will lose those...
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
Will the member give way on that point?
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
The Conservatives won elections consecutively and stayed in office for 18 years with the word "unionist" right at the helm. We are going to outface Labour on that point.
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Scotland in the United Kingdom
I want to support the minister today, but I am not sure that her going through the Executive's record is the best way of getting me to do that. Where do her comments leave our justice system, of which the Executive has made an absolute shambles?
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
15 Mar 2007
Scottish Commission for Public Audit
I recognise the importance of the issue and the expertise in our auditing systems that has been referred to. Given the fact that the European Union has failed to get its accounts audited for a number of years, does the member think that we could use our experience to give the ...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
15 Mar 2007
Scottish Commission for Public Audit
Will the member give way?
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
15 Mar 2007
Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Bill
I am sorry, but I am in my last minute. Patrick Harvie's points on education and addressing addiction were worth while. There is a need for longer terms in prison to allow the authorities to address those issues. To some degree, our prisons should turn into educational establi...
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
15 Mar 2007
Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Bill
If it is simply not true, minister, why on earth leave those words in the bill? They could have been removed. Given what the minister has said, it would not have done any harm. It is a piece of nonsense. On automatic early release, Colin Fox commented that instead of Tory earl...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
15 Mar 2007
Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Bill
It is with disappointment that I rise today. I had great hopes for the bill. Like Bill Aitken and others, including Colin Fox and Patrick Harvie, I feel that there are a number of good elements in the bill that I would have liked to go along with. The knives element has been r...
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
15 Mar 2007
Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Bill
I thank the minister for giving way with her usual courtesy, but how on earth can she guarantee that the licence conditions will be met in full? Bail conditions, for example, are already breached across the country with no apparent penalties applied.
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
15 Mar 2007
Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Bill
Will the minister give way?
Phil Gallie: Con Chamber
15 Mar 2007
Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
The minister is very much on the defensive on this issue. She recognises that the system of early release has been discredited. That was recognised by the Tory Government in 1997. Why has the Labour Government or the Scottish Lib-Lab pact not addressed the issue before now?
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con Chamber
15 Mar 2007
Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
When the Parole Board determines at the end of the custody part whether an individual can be released, what effect could the European convention on human rights—I am not joking on this occasion—have on decisions that the Parole Board makes?
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
That completes the committee's consideration of the bill at phase two. Before I close the meeting, I would like to say a few words.I thank my colleagues on the committee, who have spent much time scrutinising the oral and written evidence on the bill. Committee members are to ...
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 53, in the name of Jeremy Purvis, is in a group on its own.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 44, in the name of Cathy Peattie, is grouped with amendments 45 to 47.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 42, in the name of Jeremy Purvis, is in a group on its own.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 40, in the name of Jeremy Purvis, is in a group on its own.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 33, in the name of Alasdair Morgan, is grouped with amendments 34, 35, 37, 38, 49, 50, 52 and 52A.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 32, in the name of Alasdair Morgan, is in a group on its own.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 31, in the name of Cathy Peattie, is in a group on its own.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 30, in the name of Janis Hughes, is grouped with amendment 51.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 29, in the name of Janis Hughes, is in a group on its own.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 24, in the name of Janis Hughes, is grouped with amendments 25 to 28.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 23, in the name of Cathy Peattie, is grouped with amendment 41.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 22, in the name of Janis Hughes, is in a group on its own.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 21, in the name of Janis Hughes, is in a group on its own.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 19, in the name of Janis Hughes, is grouped with amendment 20.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 18, in the name of Alasdair Morgan, is grouped with amendment 36.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 17, in the name of Cathy Peattie, is grouped with amendment 39.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 14, in the name of Jeremy Purvis, is grouped with amendment 15.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 3, in the name of Jeremy Purvis, is grouped with amendments 4 to 13, 16, 43 and 48.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 2, in the name of Janis Hughes, is in a group on its own.
The Convener: Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 1, in the name of Cathy Peattie, is in a group on its own.
The Convener (Phil Gallie): Con Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Welcome to the third and final meeting in 2007 of the Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill Committee. The meeting is quorate; we have a full house once again. I ask everyone in the room to ensure that all phones and pagers are switched off. I extend a special ...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
13 Mar 2007
Sift
The most unenjoyable period that I spent on the European and External Relations Committee was the time when I was also on the Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill Committee. Because of the nature of that committee, I was required to miss quite a number of this committee's meetings. ...
Phil Gallie: Con Committee
13 Mar 2007
Sift
On the sift, yes, it is.