my weekly blog from

The Scottish Parliment

 

Dear Constituent

Welcome to my website and the weekly update on my work. 

I began the week by joining with other Labour parliamentarians to support the STUC’s campaign on improved rights for agency and temporary workers.

Campaigning for temporary and agency workers with
trades union leaders and Labour parliamentarians

 

I had an opportunity to welcome Labour’s health spokesperson, Margaret Curran MSP, on a visit to the A+E department at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, one of the busiest in the country. There were a number of patients being treated as a result of serious assaults including two stabbing victims and an individual who had been attacked with a machete. I have been a keen supporter of the Violence Reduction Unit, and while the work of the staff at the GRI was incredible to witness, it brought home to me how much we still need to do to tackle the scourge of violence and particularly knife crime in Scotland, and especially Glasgow.


I also hosted a seminar in Parliament on housing in multiple occupation to discuss improving regulation and responding to the many concerns of constituents in areas such as Glasgow’s West End. I intend to follow this up with a further roundtable with Glasgow councillors and then finally in a meeting I have secured with the Planning Minister.


However, the big news in the chamber this week was the announcement by Scottish Ministers that they will not ban animal snaring in Scotland. Animal welfare is always one of the biggest post bag issues for MSPs and I share the bitter disappointment of many constituents with the approach the Scottish Government has taken.

Thanks for stopping by.

 


Pauline McNeill MSP
for Glasgow Kelvin

 

Last updated 22 February 2008

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