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From YouTube: The Week in Holyrood 1st December 2016
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A
You're
listening
to
the
weekend,
Hollywood
from
Caledonia
media
and
Charles
Fletcher,
the
presiding
officer
of
the
Scottish
Parliament,
has
established
a
commission
on
parliamentary
reform,
ken
McIntosh,
as
it's
time
after
17
years
to
review
how
Hollywood
functions
the
chair
of
the
Commission
is
John.
Mccormack
I
began
by
asking
him
why
he
believed
the
Parliament
needs
an
MOT.
Well.
B
Those
are
the
words
of
the
presiding
officer
used
and
when
we
could,
when
we
discussed
it,
he
said
well.
The
problem
has
been
here
for
17
years.
By
the
time
it
comes
to
his
20th
or
21st
birthday.
I'd
like
to
have
said
that
we've
checked
weather
is
still
fit
for
purpose.
A
lots
happened.
Then
the
17
years
of
Parliament
was
established.
B
Changes
in
society,
use
of
social
media,
the
ways
people
engage
with
each
other,
the
way
people
engage
with
politicians
and,
on
the
other
hand,
on
the
Parliament
itself,
the
franchise
opening
up
to
16
and
17
year
olds,
which
has
been
a
great
innovation
in
production
and
over
that
period
was
having
17
years.
The
parliament
has
gained
new
powers
first
in
2012
and
then
again
earlier
this
year.
So
we
both
thought.
A
B
I
haven't
done
that
laughter
men
as
the
Chairman
I,
get
it
at
terribles.
I
preempted
and
said
here's
my
shopping
list,
I
think
the
Parliament
works,
but
you,
when
you
stand
back
and
look
at
something
you
can
always
make
it
better.
So
we're
looking
at
the
checks
and
balances
and
the
Parliament
for
the
weight
conducts
this
legislation.
The
way
it
conducts
as
business
cannot
be
improved.
B
It
was
one
of
the
founding
principles
the
Parliament
should
engage
with
people
across
the
country
and
that's
why
it's
a
great
opportunity
to
talk
to
you
today,
because
we
want
people
who've
been
involved
in
in
the
parliament
in
some
way
and
maybe
going
to
committed,
maybe
signed.
A
petition
may
be
offered
the
petition
to
tell
other
experiences.
Well,
they
satisfied
will
be
frustrated
that
work
out
the
way
they
want
to
just
walk
out
to
the
field.
A
B
I'd
ask
everybody:
is
listening
to
look
up
our
website
parliamentary
reform,
dot,
Scott
and
there
you
can
find
the
different
ways
you
can
engage
with
us.
First
of
all,
we
have
written
to
more
than
200
organizations
across
the
country
asking
that
they'll
help
us
by
giving
their
views
on
the
Parliament
from
their
membership
from
the
people
they
meet
regularly
and
we've
set
up
an
online
survey
on
the
website
very
easy
to
fill
in
very
quick.
B
So
we'll
be
doing
it
ourselves
and
we
ask
other
people
to
write
to
us
to
look
up
the
website
parliamentary
reform
Scott
and
find
the
different
ways
they
can
and
they
can
do
everything
on
social
media
that
can
Twitter's
they
can
email
us.
They
can
do
everything
and
we
just
want
to
hear
from
everybody
across
the
country.
I'm.
A
Waiting
to
see
if
we
can
hear
the
website
being
named
a
living
twice
so
far,
so,
for
example,
we
finally
sitting
in
kirkcaldy
and
I've
run
a
little
group
orison
and
done
de
lune
in
similar
I
can
download
the
toolkit
and
then
amongst
the
little
group,
half
hour
discussion
and
then
speak
that
bag.
Exactly.
B
That's
exactly
it
and
you
can
contact
any
of
the
people
involved
in
the
Commission
at
the
Scottish
Parliament.
So
if
you
want
to
use
an
old
fashioned
for
the
number,
you
just
use
a
parliamentary
phone
number
as
for
the
Commission's
parliamentary
reform
and
talk
to
somebody
there
about
it
and
how
we
can
help
you
to
have
that
discussion.
How.
B
It
is
so
it's
very
difficult.
Actually,
you've
been
in
a
first
two
weeks
who
has
been
speaking
to
a
number
of
academics.
People
have
studied
pollen
and
solar,
and
one-
and
one
thing
they've
said
to
us-
is
that
most
people
associate
governments
and
Parliament's
together
and
that
you
have
to
work
at
trying
to
carve
out
the
identity
of
the
problem
and
I
distinct
from
from
the
government.
So
we
accept
that
most
people
know
the
government
makes
the
decisions,
but
the
government
is
accountable
to
Parliament
and
the
way
the
Hollywood
Parliament
was
set
up.
B
That's
very
clear,
so
we
want
to
try
to
see
what
we
can
do
once
we
talk
to
people
of
how
they
see
the
difference
and
what
they
would
like
to
see.
But
I
think
that's
going
to
be
difficult.
That's
quite
a
challenge,
because
the
relationship
of
government
and
Parliament
people
overlap.
They
overlap
for
most
people,
but
they're
going
to
do
some.
B
That's
a
very
good
point.
You
know
and
I
do
think
that
the
Parliament
over
the
17
years
has
done
a
lot
to
involve
people
with
exhibitions
or
conveys
parliamentary
days
of
the
festival
of
politics
during
the
summer.
A
lot
of
school
trips
every
time
I
go
to
the
Parliament
building
those
school
trips
going
around
and
and
Q's
a
Taurus
wanted
to
see
you.
B
A
B
Enjoying
it,
it's
wonderful,
I
mean
I,
did
I,
remember
being
at
the
opening
of
the
Scottish
Parliament
first
of
july
in
1999,
and
have
very
privileged.
I
felt
to
be
there
and
I
feel
very
privileged
to
be
asked
to
do
this
work
because
I'm
sure
I'm,
not
the
only
person
who
feels
difficult
to
imagine
Scotland
without
this
Parliament,
which
is
at
the
heart
of
our
democratic
system,
and
so
my
family.
B
My
children
find
it
difficult
to
imagine
that
I
grew
up
with
without
Parliament
and
all
it
is
actually
in
all
and
that's
what
they
expect
to
happen,
that
the
government
comes
closer
to
the
people.
So,
if
you're
very
privileged
to
be
asked
to
do
this
one
to
see,
we
can
refresh
the
Parliament
for
the
next
20
years
and.