Angus Brendan MacNeil
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(1 year, 2 months ago)
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Mr Jack
I agree with my hon. Friend, and I could not have put it better myself.
Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (Ind)
Is the truth of the Union not that while we see independent Norway and independent Ireland in budget surplus—independent Ireland with a surplus this year of €10 billion, rising to €23 billion in the next three years—the Scottish Government cannot build small hospitals on small Scottish islands? Is the answer not for Scotland to remove the Westminster handcuffs and to get the independence and budget surpluses of Norway and Ireland, so that we can move forward and move away from the Brexit of the Tories and the Labour party?
Mr Jack
They always say independence will sort the problems. Scotland is not building hospitals on the islands because the Scottish Government are squandering the most generous settlement they have had since devolution began.