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Jackie in Parliament

Covid-19 (Spring Booster Vaccination)

Scottish Parliament debates

Covid cases have been rising, hospital admissions are rising and long Covid cases are going up. It is more than six months since many people had their third vaccination, including people who are...

Social Care Charges

Scottish Parliament debates

The cabinet secretary knows me well—I would indeed do that. However, he is misrepresenting the situation, because there are sufficient unearmarked reserves that are not for Covid but for...

Social Care Charges

Scottish Parliament debates

I am disappointed that the member did not listen to my earlier words. We set out exactly where the Scottish Government could get the money. We explained that it has all the powers that it needs...

Social Care Charges

Scottish Parliament debates

The Scottish Government is already the final arbiter of decisions that IJBs make, which go to the minister. The Scottish Government already directs how they spend money, through ring fencing....

Social Care Charges

Scottish Parliament debates

If the member had bothered to consider what was in Labour’s manifesto and what Labour has believed in for 10 years, he would know that we believe in local accountability and local control,...

Social Care Charges

Scottish Parliament debates

If you had bothered to actually—

Social Care Charges

Scottish Parliament debates

Will the minister tell us when non-residential care charges will be ended?

Social Care Charges

Scottish Parliament debates

The Government, by creating a national care service, wants to tell IJBs what to do. I am suggesting that, given that the Government has given IJBs that money, it can tell them what to do with...

Social Care Charges

Scottish Parliament debates

Every day, the cost of living crisis worsens. For a growing number of people, theirs is a choice between heating and eating, which is pushing people into debt and causing incredible hardship. The...

National Health Service (Use of Locums)

Scottish Parliament debates

But demand is growing.

National Health Service (Use of Locums)

Scottish Parliament debates

I thank the First Minister for her response, but I remind her that, of course, people in this chamber are responsible for the NHS in Scotland. Perhaps she should spend her time focusing on that,...

National Health Service (Use of Locums)

Scottish Parliament debates

6. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government is doing to tackle the reported growing use of locum staff in the national health service. (S6F-01228)

Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Meetings)

Scottish Parliament debates

What discussions have been had with COSLA about increasing the mileage allowance for social care staff, particularly those who are in the private sector, as fuel prices rise to £2 a litre?...

Long Covid (Support)

Scottish Parliament debates

There are 155,000 people in Scotland with long Covid and the number is rising every month. The majority are simply not receiving services. The £3 million that the Scottish Government has...

Covid-19 Inquiry

Scottish Parliament debates

I echo John Swinney’s comments and send my condolences to all those people who have lost loved ones during the pandemic. I very much welcome the inclusion in the terms of reference of...

NHS Staff Recruitment and Retention

Scottish Parliament debates

I join others across the chamber in thanking NHS and social care staff for their hard work, and I congratulate Rhoda Grant on securing this debate. She makes a powerful case for training NHS...

Victims of Rape and Domestic Abuse

Scottish Parliament debates

On a point of order, Presiding Officer. The First Minister might not be aware that Kevin Stewart is ill with Covid and is self-isolating. I am sure that members will wish him a speedy recovery....

Scottish Personal Assistant Employers Network (Funding)

Scottish Parliament debates

Funding for the Scottish Personal Assistant Employers Network has been withdrawn by the SNP Government. This is the organisation that helps disabled people to pay for their personal assistants,...

Covid-19 Recovery (Cross-Government Policies)

Scottish Parliament debates

Asymptomatic testing has ended for carers and those who are cared for, antivirals are restricted, the platform adaptive trial of novel antivirals for early treatment of Covid-19 in the community...

National Parks

Scottish Parliament debates

I very much welcome the opportunity to participate in the debate, not least because it will be a walk down memory lane, but I also get to be shamelessly parochial. I am extremely proud to...