Empowering Scotland’s Island Communities

As an amendment to motion S4M-14448 in the name of Derek Mackay (Empowering Scotland’s Island Communities), leave out from "and recognises" to end and insert "; recognises that the campaign for greater recognition of local needs by the Scottish Government grew out of public concern in all three island communities at the centralisation of a range of public services and decision-making responsibilities over recent years; endorses the Smith Commission recommendations that are particularly relevant to the islands on such matters as fully devolving management of the seabed to local control, and notes that health, education and other public services are under particular financial pressure in the islands due to the increased costs of delivering services in such communities."