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The Deputy Presiding Officer (Linda Fabiani) SNP

The next item of business is the stage 3 debate on motion S5M-21976, in the name of Maree Todd, on the Disclosure (Scotland) Bill. We are already late in st...

The Minister for Children and Young People (Maree Todd) SNP

I am pleased to open the stage 3 debate on the Disclosure (Scotland) Bill. First, I thank the members and clerks of the Education and Skills Committee for th...

Jamie Greene (West Scotland) (Con) Con

I thank members for their patience this evening. We have got to a stage at which the legislation has been appropriately amended and can be passed. I was new ...

Iain Gray (East Lothian) (Lab) Lab

I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of members’ interests, which says that I am the chair of the Hibernian Community Foundation. In our st...

Ross Greer (West Scotland) (Green) Green

I start by reminding members that I am a current member of the PVG scheme, through the Church of Scotland. Rehabilitation and reintegration into society for...

Beatrice Wishart (Shetland Islands) (LD) LD

This debate concludes my first full experience of scrutinising legislation in the Scottish Parliament since I was elected last summer. I record my thanks to ...

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

We move to the open debate, with speeches of four minutes. We are already quite well over time, so brevity would be appreciated by everyone. 18:33

Clare Adamson (Motherwell and Wishaw) (SNP) SNP

I thank colleagues who have already covered many of the points that I wanted to make about the Disclosure (Scotland) Bill. I am very thankful to our clerks a...

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

We seem to have lost Jeremy Balfour—I hope, just temporarily. In the meantime, I call Daniel Johnson. 18:37

Daniel Johnson (Edinburgh Southern) (Lab) Lab

Thank you, Presiding Officer. I am sorry—you caught me off guard there. There are only 23 minutes left before we all want to be out of here, so I will try t...

Rona Mackay (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (SNP) SNP

I am happy to speak in the stage 3 debate on a bill that is incredibly important to the Scottish Government’s ability to protect the most vulnerable in socie...

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

I am afraid that we have not been able to get Mr Balfour back—oh, he has arrived just in the nick of time. We have not made up all the time that I was hoping...

Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) (Con) Con

I apologise, Presiding Officer. I will keep my comments brief; technology let me down there. Unlike other members who have spoken so far in the debate, I co...

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

Thank you, Mr Balfour. I am glad that you finally managed to join the debate. We move to the closing speeches. We are not too bad for time—you have up to fo...

Iain Gray Lab

I hear the “up to four minutes”, Presiding Officer. We find ourselves in the twilight of a wet Wednesday, in a sparsely populated chamber, in the middle of a...

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

I do not think that your card is in properly, Mr Halcro Johnston. In fact, it is not in at all. It is not as if we have all the time in the world here. Laugh...

Jamie Halcro Johnston (Highlands and Islands) (Con) Con

My apologies, Presiding Officer. I thank all my fellow speakers for giving me so much time to expand on the points that I want to make today. Increasingly, ...

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

Given how things have gone, I ask the minister to speak for a wee bit longer than her allotted time. Laughter. It would be useful if you could take us to jus...

Maree Todd SNP

Thank you, Presiding Officer. I am hastily replacing all the pages in my speech. I thank all members for their contributions today. Again, I thank the Educa...

Daniel Johnson Lab

Will the minister reflect on the point about the police, which the GTCS said are also part of the issues that it faces in obtaining the information?

Maree Todd SNP

I am certainly happy to work to continue to improve the information-sharing relationship, because it is important. I have to make clear that if new informati...