Hansard

The Presiding Officer (Ken Macintosh) NPA

Our business this morning is a debate on motion S5M-00190, in the name of Fiona Hyslop, on Scotland’s future in the European Union. I call Fiona Hyslop to sp...

The Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs (Fiona Hyslop) SNP

I will first take a moment to welcome colleagues to their new positions, including Jackson Carlaw for the Conservatives and Lewis Macdonald for Labour. Ther...

Tavish Scott (Shetland Islands) (LD) LD

I agree with the cabinet secretary’s observations about the contribution that EU migrants make to Scotland and, indeed, the UK, but can she illustrate to the...

Fiona Hyslop SNP

NHS Scotland has been among those contributing to the case that is being made to the UK Government for a migration system that works for Scotland and our pub...

Neil Findlay (Lothian) (Lab) Lab

Will the cabinet secretary expand on her logic of wanting to leave a political union of 60 million to join a political union of 750 million and say whether s...

Fiona Hyslop SNP

I think that I have just made that case. There are 28 independent countries in the EU that can decide for themselves to be part of a market. If Mr Findlay wa...

Elaine Smith (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab

On that point about different views, the cabinet secretary seemed to indicate that anyone who takes a leave view is aligning themselves with Boris Johnson. D...

Fiona Hyslop SNP

We could take a historical perspective. The Archbishop of Canterbury is currently addressing the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Perhaps some peo...

Jackson Carlaw (Eastwood) (Con) Con

I thank the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs for her welcome. It will indeed be fun for me, after nine years shadowing the health ...

Elaine Smith Lab

What will happen if the comprehensive economic and trade agreement and the transatlantic trade and investment partnership are passed at the EU?

Jackson Carlaw Con

There are divisions of opinion, and the balance of where the arguments will eventually rest is yet to be decided, but international trade agreements are part...

Kezia Dugdale (Lothian) (Lab) Lab

I welcome this chance to set out the positive case for the European Union. Labour is Scotland’s internationalist party. We believe in solidarity beyond bord...

Richard Lochhead (Moray) (SNP) SNP

I congratulate all the party leaders on showing leadership on Scotland and Europe and putting the positive case for remain. I also congratulate Fiona Hyslop ...

Oliver Mundell (Dumfriesshire) (Con) Con

Will the member take an intervention?

Richard Lochhead SNP

I apologise, but I have no time to do so. There is also the considerable progressive social and environmental legislation that I think we can all agree woul...

Ross Thomson (North East Scotland) (Con) Con

Will the member give way?

Richard Lochhead SNP

I apologise, but I have only one minute left. I come to my final point. Many people in Scotland have genuine concerns about particular EU policies, how the ...

Adam Tomkins (Glasgow) (Con) Con

It is a great honour to make my maiden speech in the Parliament as one of Glasgow’s two newly elected Conservative MSPs. Given that I have taught European an...

The Presiding Officer NPA

Thank you, Mr Tomkins—and thank you for speaking precisely to time. I remind members that there is an expectation that every member who wants to speak in the...

Christina McKelvie (Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) (SNP) SNP

Thank you, Presiding Officer. I welcome you to your new role in the chair. There is much about the EU debate that reminds me of Alice in “Through the Lookin...

Neil Findlay Lab

Will the member give way?

Christina McKelvie SNP

We spoke enough last night, Mr Findlay. In the UK, employees do not have a right to a written contract of employment.

Neil Findlay Lab

That will be a no, then.

Christina McKelvie SNP

Maybe the member should sit and learn something—rudeness will not get him anywhere. However, thanks to the EU written statement directive, employees must b...

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab

It is a privilege to be called for the first time as the new member for Edinburgh Southern in this Parliament—a privilege that comes with a sense of duty and...

Ross Greer (West Scotland) (Green) Green

This is my first speech as a member of this Parliament, but it is not my first speech in this chamber. Uniquely among the Parliaments and Assemblies in these...

Michael Russell (Argyll and Bute) (SNP) SNP

It is a pleasure and an honour to speak after Ross Greer’s first speech. I am not the oldest member—fortuitously—but all older members will be stretched and ...

Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con) Con

Scotland elects four tiers of Government; the one that the public knows least about is the European level, with most people struggling to say how many MEPs a...

Stewart Stevenson (Banffshire and Buchan Coast) (SNP) SNP

Will Margaret Mitchell give way?

Margaret Mitchell Con

In this debate of two and a half hours, leave speakers have about 10 minutes or, with the grace of the Deputy Presiding Officer, perhaps 12. Therefore, the m...