Rhaid i chi, rwyfaf i'n bwysig. Fy enw i'n Crisina Cullwc. Rhywbeth yng Nghar Teng y Burgyn Genedlai Arddangos yn Nghar Teng. Yn Ysgol Llywodraeth, ac yw'n golygu yng Nghar Teng yw'n... ...fawr o'r eich cyflawn, rwy'n cyffredigau'r bwysig... ...y ddiolch iawn i cyflorau. Yn y ddataeth, cyflorau, y platform sy'n gweithio... ...y'n gynyddu i ddangos i'r cyflorau gyffredig... yn gweithio'r ddataeth o'r gwaith materiol ymdweithio ar y Charting ac mae'r ddaeth gweithio'r ddaeth yn gweithio'r ddataeth o'r gweithio'r ddweithio'r ddweithio. Ond dwi'n rwy'n meddwl, y Charting City region yw y ddweithio yma sy'n golygu'r gwahanol.  A dyna'r unig i'r rhain, y harteig sydd y regen i'r ymddangos i'r rhan o'r ardeigwyd ac yn ei ddweud, ond rydyn ni wedi'u gweld eich bod y rhaid i'r ysgrifennu gweld eich rhaid i'r harteig. Y GCRO mae'r Rhaglenu Fesedd yw Gwneud ym Mhwylwyr yn Ychydig Haneysberg, ond mae'r ffocws yn y harteig sydd y regen i'r ysgrifennu felly rydyn ni wedi'i gwen ifanc ar y llwyddon ynghylch, y Unedig, y Unedig ychydig a'r Gweithgaredd yn Charteng. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r gweithio ar y llwyddon, ac mae gennym ni'n gweithio'r gweithgaredd yn Charteng. Mae'n ddechrau i gyd yn ddechrau'i gweithio'r gweithgaredd yn y gweithgaredd yng nghylch ar gyfer y gweithgaredd oherwydd mae'n gweithgaredd yn ddechrau'r gweithgaredd yn gweithgaredd yn y gweithgaredd. Ond oherwydd allan o'r ddweud i ddwy i gweithgaredd yn dweud i ddweudio'r gweithgaredd yn ddechrau. I fe ddiweddio, wrth gwrs, yn gweithio allan o ffordd o'r gweithgaredd yn gweithgaredd ar amgylchedd o'r ddweud i ddechrau i gweithgaredd. Ond, ychydig gorfodd ar y gweithgaredd yn ddweudio'r gweithgaredd, ond ond yn ddweudio'r gweithgaredd yn ddweudio'r gweithgaredd. alguns y gwaith sounds that are just accessible to a range of people and not just the academic audience. The little bit of research that we do spans, Wide see the broad range of things from governance to economics to spatial change and social issues. One of the key themes that we do spent quite a bit of time I will focus on our sustainability research and essentially the broader theme of research that we conduct under this theme really is based on the principle that cities can't continue to build in a way that takes no consideration to the fact that we have limited resources a'r cerddwyd ni'n meddylu o'r cysylltu'r mewn cwestiynau ymddangos ar y gwahodau'r yma. Felly, mae'r ddiwrnod o'r ddweud o ddynnu'r ddweud ar y cyflogurau erbyn mewn ddweud o'r cyflogurau a'r cyflogurau, ychydig o phobl ymlawr, yma yw'r ysbryd yma ar y cwestiynau'r cyflogurau, rwy'n meddyl yn gyflawni ddynnu'r cyflogurau a'r cyflogurau ar y cyflogurau than any other area in the country, and what implication does that have on resources, our existing resource-based, but also the resources that we import and then produce outside. So we've got a number of projects that look at different aspects of this, looking at green assets in infrastructure that's linked to the ecological infrastructure type work, dimensions of green economy, metabolic flows in infrastructure transitions, just sustainability transitions, and essentially what each of these projects tries to do is try to build a logic and an argument for government and people within Haughteng to start shifting, not just a particular understanding, but systemic-wide understanding of how do we shift into a more sustainable trajectory. But zooming into our metabolic flows and infrastructure transitions project, the idea behind this project is very clearly tied to the focus of this workshop here, and the aim of this project is to examine the prospects of reducing resource consumption and waste flows through the transformation of infrastructure within Haughteng. The idea was to track the different flows of water, energy, materials, waste, biomass through Haughteng as Paul's been discussing, and everyone has been discussing today. Really the intention of it was to be a way for people in Haughteng to rethink how the city functions, taking a look at what ways, what opportunities there are to shift from our current trajectory into a more sustainable one. So the project was initiated in 2011-2012, and we set out to conduct an economy-wide material flow analysis. We had really big expectations, real big hopes for being able to do this, and we spent a number of years gathering as much data as we could on waste flows, energy, water, food and a number of other types of materials. The data collection was done both by internal GCRO staff as well as commissioned experts within particular fields. Over those few years we were able to gather an incredible amount of data, and I think this really does speak to the luxurious space in some ways that we have spoken about in Cape Town. Haughteng was also able to gather an incredible amount of data. So I'm going to show you a little bit of some of the initial results that we have managed to get. The next few glass, a lot of them linked up. So here the red line, perhaps it should be blue, but the red line relates to water abstraction. So just a little bit of context to Haughteng. We are a very highly populated province, but we do not have a major water source. So we import and pipe water hundreds of kilometres from another country, from Lesotho, all the way to Haughteng, and that is mainly stored in the Val River system, and then we pump that out, and then it gets distributed to Haughteng to everyone, and also I think a little bit beyond the border of the province as well. But essentially what this graph shows you is over time how much water we have drawn from the dam in order to serve the province's needs. And you can see the grey line is GDP. So that's, you can see that the growth in GDP is semi-linked to how much water we abstract and use in the city region, or Haughteng. I think this is strictly for Haughteng, the province. So that's 2001 or 2002, 2011. You can see a small decoupling towards the end. We're also able to take a look at the different energy sources. So this is just focusing on City of Chwane, one of the major metros in Haughteng. For 2004 you can see the various industries and sectors of the economy that use different proportions of energy with industry and construction transport similarly to Cape Town, taking a dominant role in energy. And that's also partly because of the sprawling nature of Chwane and Haughteng itself and how dominant the transport sector is. Housing also takes about 20% and then commercial agriculture minor inquiry. Liquid fuel consumption, again you can see what's really interesting if you take a look at the graph heading up and then takes a really strong dip in 2008, linking straight up with the global financial crisis. And I'm sure there are a number of other factors that I'm not considering there. But again, to an extent linking up with GDP growth. This one is domestic scale sales of cement. And this is a really interesting flow, so the purple again is a cement. You'll notice that we have really good data from 2001 all the way up to 2008. And then it stops quite abruptly and I'll get back to this. But again, really interesting to be able to see how a boom in the building sector is really quite clearly shown by this data. Really clearly identifying how the material that's being translated into those building stocks is quite clear through the cement sales. Now although we had some really great successes in those graphs show at quite a high level that we were able to gather some types of sense. So certainly we didn't manage to get to the point of doing a full flow of different sectors through the province for a number of reasons. But what I'm going to focus in now is a little bit of our reflection on some of the challenges with data that Paul has mentioned up until now. And I'll focus on three different types of data challenges that we had. Firstly, data availability challenges, boundary issues, and then data anomalies. So in terms of data availability I'm going to zoom back to this particular graph here. So in some cases we had really great access to data. In some cases it was a lot harder to find data. Now the reason why I'm going back to this data is the cement data is because up until 2008 there was a really fantastic set of accessible data on cement. It was gathered, collected, stored in an open format that really gave a fantastic rich source of data. In 2008 there was a competition commission finding that this data set was the source of collusion and the data source was shut down. So the different industry players were using this data for collusion purposes so the data stopped. They were not allowed to collect any data. It's not openly accessible anymore. You cannot find this data anywhere. So we have really great data up until 2008 and then nothing at all. We've mentioned and spoken quite a bit about boundary issues. As Paul was saying, any city is going to have boundary issues. In Khautang we have boundary issues on steroids. We have not just one city, we have three of the country's major municipalities on each other's borders. We have municipalities that are really close by, functionally connected to the city region. Economies that are functionally connected but do not fit within the administrative boundaries. Different municipalities collect data in different ways. Different custodians deal with them in very different ways and gathering a full sense of what happens in a functional city region is incredibly, incredibly difficult and that's something that we found increasingly as a challenge when you're trying to look at this city region that wasn't a single city. Then shifting on to some data anomalies. So the graphs up until this point have been showing have been the broad level, Khautang level results or city level results and mostly they look pretty credible. So this one is a new graph. This one is looking at municipal solid waste per year from 2001 to 2011. So that's the blue line. Again the grey line is GDP growth. So here this one is a little bit of an erratic graph but at a broad level looks like it might be feasible. It doesn't look actually fundamentally different to perhaps the graph that we saw that scatterplot earlier today from some of the surge. So I know that very different things but there's fluctuation of the years that maybe could be plausible. However what we realized is that at the broad scale these fluctuations actually were resulting from data availability from the different cities. In some years some cities had data available and in other years they didn't have data available. So where you have drops in this graph it's actually related to the fact that some cities weren't reporting that yet. So makes this broad level data very difficult to actually use at all or feel like we've got any real sense of understanding what the trend over time actually is. Then when we started looking at a year where we did have a full set of data we can see that graph that looks at the different municipalities. So Chwane on the far left, Johannesburg, Echoroleni and then the two district municipalities, Citibang and West Rang all together equalling that final total on the right hand side. Now also again broad level you'd think oh maybe that's plausible. Anyone who understands and knows Khating will know that Chwane is a much smaller city in terms of population than Johannesburg. Not only that it is also much less economically active. So the likelihood of Chwane producing more solid waste than Johannesburg is virtually inconceivable. So we then started looking at that saying okay well why are we getting results for Johannesburg. These are the official results that the cities are gathering for themselves. How is it that Chwane is gathering data that is so much higher than what Johannesburg is. So this is when we started doing a little bit more qualitative analysis based on these findings. And started finding that there seemed to be some type of issue at the way bridges. At the point at which the data is being collected. So what happens is the trucks go into the landfill, they get weighed. The private ones depending on what weight of load they're carrying that relates to how much they need to pay. Now you can very quickly realise that there's a disincentive to bring not only firstly come to the legal landfills because you're going to have to pay the required amount to dump your waste in an appropriate way. So one side of things is people and you see this quite a lot particularly in formal settlement areas that someone will say okay well if you give me 100 rand you can dump your stuff here. So that's completely bypassing the formal system. But what we were finding at the way bridges is that in some cases the people in charge of the way bridges were getting bribed to weigh at a lower level or to reflect that what they were weighing was much less so that the charges on that truck load was less than what it should be. You also find a lot of way bridges then not only just weighing less but actually just not working and there was no incentive for the people reporting there to report that these way bridges were not actually working. So when you start digging down into the actual data at a high level they might have seen plausible looking deeper down we said we've actually got some functional problems with actually understanding our waste flows completely. But does this mean that the data collection process was a waste? Absolutely not. What we found is that these are just a couple of examples but we've got a number of streams of research that have been initiated an ethnographic investigation into the water department in the city of Joabig to try and understand data of water and a range of other avenues of research that this initial data gathering has flagged as we actually don't understand why is this data looking like this, why can we not get the data. And starting to ask some of the sociological and anthropological questions around understanding are there some incentives not just from a data gathering perspective but in terms of shifting towards a more sustainable trajectory. So we are convinced that not only is it important to continue doing this type of analysis, the material flow analysis but it's important I think and I think this is some of the work that Paul at the back that side has been working on is looking at how do we combine not just the high level data but combine it with neighbourhood and bottom up survey in household and neighbourhood level data, how do you punctuate that high level data. Important to understand what the political ecology, the sociology equations, what are the governance structures in place that are maybe not facilitating gathering of the data but also as I mentioned the shift, the sustainable shift. And I think just to close off what has to be and I think that Paul was mentioning this, this type of analysis, these type of research projects are only useful if they're helping us as cities understand the space better to be able to move in a more sustainable trajectory. They have to be usable, applicable and functional for the governments and the entities who are working to understand our cities and move into a more sustainable way. Thank you.


So you don't really want the collider. You just want to know if something's in front of you. Not a problem. You, my friend, are looking for a raycast. A raycast is just a collider that only checks in one direction. To set one up, first create a variable that determines your raycast range. Then you're gonna create a vector three variable called direction. And we want it to check directly in front of our object, so I'm just gonna say forward. Then you're gonna create the actual variable for the raycast. We are just gonna call it the ray, and it equals new ray transform dot position transform dot transform direction, and it's gonna equal a direction multiplied by our range. And if you want to be able to see what you are doing, then you are gonna have to add this code to tell Unity to draw it for you in debug, all right? So all this means is that we've created a direction, then we created the raycast in that direction, and we want to be able to see it. If you save and run the game now, you will see your character is now shooting a giant lightsaber straight out. If you change the range, then you can make the raycast longer or shorter. And every time something crosses the raycast, it's actually noticing it. An easy way to check what's in front of it is to just use tags. So let's just say you have different types of objects. One's an enemy and one's part of the environment. How do you distinguish between the two? Well, if you just go down here and type physics dot raycast the ray out, raycast hit hit and range, and then go down here and say, if hit dot collider dot tag equals equals environment, or whatever the name of the tag is, print it's the environment. Else if hit dot collider dot tag equals equals enemy, print it's the enemy.  And if an object with an enemy tag is in front of you, that code will activate instead. That's really it. There's a lot of good uses for raycast. Just to give you a few examples, in my game there's a mission where the enemies are dropping from the sky in pods. And when the pods get close to the ground, they eject out the pod and attack you. Well, the code for that is really simple. I just have a raycast and when it detects the floor, it triggers the pod to eject. I also use it to guide enemies through terrain. Usually, enemy fighters will fly through a path. But if they detect a wall in front of them, they'll activate an evasive maneuver to find a way around it. So, just use your imagination. Anyway, as always, hope that helps. Hope you have a fantastic day. Now see you around.


Ben pokemonau a'r allu cwestiynau cyfarchiwn a cyfarchiwn cyfarchiwn cyfoarchiwn. Mae gynnyddio'r ysafodd cyhoesdiadau. A fyddai'r Ysgrifennid trwy'r odd y byddur cyfle iawn cyfarchiwn cyfarchiwn cyfarchiwn cyflor a ddarparu bufysgfaith a'r cyfle i'r rhaniad melodaid. Ysgrifennid trwy'r odd y byddur cwestiynau cyfearchiwn cyflorau cilydd. I would thank the minister for her reply, although I have to say that I am surprised. Her colleague Margaret Burgess MSP has confirmed that the government is going to cut £10 million. That will cost £10 million mostly to the small and medium-sized companies operating in the sector. Does the minister not think that it is a little hypocritical to be complaining so bitterly about the UK Government's decision to end the renewables obligation while simultaneously taking £10 million out of the sector? What sort of impact does she think that cutting £10 million will have on our ability to meet our carbon emission targets? That has been a difficult decision in a very difficult budget. The renewables industry in Scotland has benefited from relief since 2010, which was unique for the UK. We have had to target our stretched funds to those most in need, including community schemes, while balancing the needs of the renewables sector with other non-domestic rates payers. We do not expect renewable projects that will no longer be receiving the rate relief to stop generating as their main source of income generation will be via the feed-in tariff or the renewables obligation. We do not expect there to be any impact on existing projects and the role that they play in providing low-carbon and cost-effective energy as part of a balanced generation mix. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the proposed camping management by-laws for the local and the TROCC's national park. The Scottish Government approved new camping management by-laws on 26 January, covering a small area of the national park as part of a package of measures aimed at improving visitor facilities and helping to manage camping in some of the most environmentally fragile areas that are suffering from damage caused by a combination of high-volume and anti-social camping. As Minister will recall, I wrote to her in November 2015, following a large number of representations received from my constituents who expressed concern about bylaw affecting camping in the national park. They believed that such proposals were an infringement on their rights and could potentially, to further restrictions, unfairly penalise the vast majority of those individuals who adhere to it and comply with the Scottish outdoor access code. Can the minister therefore give me an assurance that individual legal rights of access as established in the land reform act of 2003 are not being undermined and that no precedent has been set for introducing any further restrictions in our national parks? Those measures should not be confused with the intentions behind the land reform Scotland bill. Those bylaws deal with specific circumstances within a national park where steps must be taken to prevent environmental damage caused by a combination of overuse and irresponsible behaviour. Both the national park Scotland Act 2000 and the land reform Scotland Act 2003 make provision for bylaws in relation to responsible uses of land. Access rights must be exercised responsibly, but unfortunately certain areas of the national park are suffering from considerable environmental damage. Local communities are having to deal with the negative impacts of the worst excesses of irresponsible behaviour. The proposals to manage camping activity are designed to promote recreational access for all types of users, not just campers in the proposed management zones. The measures within the national park do not affect access rights in other parts of the country. There is no evidence that the Eastlach Glowman bylaws like to call for similar bylaws to be considered elsewhere in Scotland. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to deal with antibiotic resistance in the food chain. The Scottish Government has signed up to the UK five-year antimicrobial strategy for 2014-2018, which is producing collaboration with public health and animal health authorities across the UK. The strategy combines actions in the human and animal health environments and a working group has been set up chaired by the chief medical officer for Scotland and is developing detailed plans to implement that. The Scottish Government also monitors scientific developments in antimicrobial resistance, lasies with other administrations and public bodies who have all got an interest in animal health, public health and food safety. Of course, we implement a veterinary surveillance programme that monitors the emergence of such resistance in animals. Given the possible variability in the implications for different sectors, can the cabinet secretary tell me if the Scottish Government has investigated the economic impact on the farming sector of a rise in antimicrobial resistance in different forms of livestock, for example poultry, cattle or sheep? Due to the fact that we very much view this issue through the prism of the impact on public health, there has been no such economic strategy on our livestock sectors in Scotland because it is not deemed to be an issue at the moment. However, I certainly think that it is something no doubt that ministers and the agencies and public bodies involved with this issue will want to reflect on as this debate moves forward. To ask the Scottish Government when it last met NFU Scotland and what matters were discussed. Representives of the Scottish Government met NFU Scotland in the humanist locations over the last few months to discuss a wide range of topics. The most recent meeting took place on 29 January in Perth to discuss cap payments. I also delivered a speech at the NFU Scotland General Assembly on 12 February, and I announced the £20 million hardship fund as well. I am not surprised that the subject was on cap payments because the shambles of the basic payment scheme continues, and with less than 1,000 payments a week being cleared, paying all claimants 70 per cent of their basic payments by the end of March, as promised, is looking increasingly unlikely, if not impossible. Farmers are now beginning to ask what impact this is all going to have on other schemes, specifically the less favoured area support scheme payment, which is normally paid in March. Can I ask the cabinet secretary a very simple question? When will this year's ELFAS payments be made? I should inform Alex Ferguson and the members that we are now approaching 50 per cent of all farmers and crofters in Scotland who have received their first instalment, which is equivalent to 80 per cent of their overall greening and basic payments. However, it is indeed the case that there will be an awful impact for other schemes. I have been very open and clear about that, given that this is the transition year between the former common agricultural policy and the new far more complex common agricultural policy, notwithstanding the fact that the IT system is not working as quickly as we had hoped, and a range of other factors as well. ELFAS is normally paid in March. I recognise the extreme importance of that payment to health farmers in particular in Scotland, and that is why I am paying a lot of attention to that as we speak. As I have said, all other schemes will have an awful impact in several weeks. I am paying particular attention to ELFAS to see how we can minimise the impact in that particular scheme. When will the cabinet secretary take decisive action? We have now got farmers with expensive bank loans that they are having to shoulder because this system has been a failure. Can you give us an update on exactly when all farmers will get all their payments? Will you recompense farmers who have had to take out expensive loans to get themselves through this system? That is impacting on rural communities across the whole country. I should make the obvious point that I cannot really be lectured by the Labour Party who, when in government at UK level, did their utmost to scrap direct payments to Scottish farmers and crofters. It is therefore a bit hypocritical to constantly criticise the Scottish Government on the time table for payments that they do not want to exist in the first place. However, it is a serious issue, and it is having a serious impact on cash flow situations across Scotland. We are working flat out to get as many of the first installments out by the end of March. As I have said, we are approaching 50 per cent as we speak, and we will continue to do our utmost to speed up the process. As you know, we cannot call down the money from Europe to pay farms and crofters until we have sorted out all the processing of the applications and addressed any errors or whatever may exist with each application form under what is a very complex system. Therefore, we simply cannot award the payments until that process has been carried out. Nevertheless, we are approaching 50 per cent at the moment. On the site of action, I have said that the £20 million that we announced at the NFU AGM will be available for genuine hardship cases. If any farmer or crofters are unable to get finance from their bank and take evidence of that to the Government, they will be able to access the £20 million fund. We have agreed that to stakeholders because that is the most sensible thing to do. The vast majority of farms and crofters, as we are aware, have a good relationship with their banks. The payment window for this overall scheme is from 1 December to the end of June this year. Clearly in previous years, we had a very good record of paying out in December, but it is the transition year and therefore we are further into that payment window than in previous years. I wish we were moving a lot more further than we are, but we are where we are and we are doing absolutely utmost to get payments out the door. The cabinet secretary is moving everything that he can. Will he undertake to either write to individual crofters and farmers who have yet to know either how much they are getting or when they will get it as quickly as he possibly can, particularly if this is going to slip into April, May or indeed, as he has just said, June? As with Alex Ferguson's question, can he not just tell Parliament today whether he will make ELFAS payments in March or just come keen with him and say, sorry, but it is going to be April? That would at least tell crofters and hill farmers how to plan financially for that eventuality. I accept the need for as much clarity as possible. Clearly we are unable to give a timetable to individual recipients for their own application because each and every day more recipients across Scotland get their payment. Therefore, any letter would be out of date as soon as it is sent to many farmers and crofters in Scotland. In terms of ELFAS, I have said that normally it is paid out in March but it is running a few weeks behind schedule. Currently, as we speak, I am actively trying to speed up that process to minimise the knock-on impact for ELFAS. I am meeting stakeholders again next week. I hope to be in a better position at that point in terms of the ELFAS payments, in particular to give more clarity on the timescale for that. To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making in introducing a ban on the use of wild animals in circuses. The Scottish Government takes the welfare of animals, including circus animals, very seriously. There are no travelling circuses with wild animals presently based in Scotland. However, some do visit Scotland on occasion and we are aware that many people have concerns about the welfare of animals. The results of the Scottish Government's consultation showed overwhelming support for a ban on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses on ethical grounds. As this would require legislation, I am considering the best way forward at the moment and the Scottish Government will set out our plans in due course and, certainly, before the dissolution of parliaments. I think that the cabinet secretary for his answer. One of the things that I am afraid of is that the cabinet secretary may be waiting for legislation to be put into practice in England, and we deal with this in an LCM. I do not think that that is going to happen soon. I am glad that the cabinet secretary has said that he is going to lay out a timetable. Can he give us an indication of when that is going to be before dissolution? Is that likely much before dissolution, or are we going to hear that sooner? It is certainly a case that, back in November 2012, DEFRA wrote to the Scottish Government and, indeed, other devolved administrations, signalling their intention to develop a bill to ban the use of wild animals in travelling circuses and offering to extend the territorial scope of the bill, including Scotland, clearly in that case. However, we will do what is best for Scottish circumstances, and I will make clear before dissolution of parliaments our own timetable for legislating in this country once we work out what the best way forward is indeed in terms of how to frame any legislation that we wish to support. I will not be influenced by the timetables elsewhere in the UK. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to tackle air pollution in Fife. The Scottish Government continues to work closely with Fife Council, SIPA, Transport Scotland and other partners to improve air quality in Fife. Fife Council has produced an air quality action plan for the Cooper air quality management area, which is regularly cited as an example of best practice. The plan contains a comprehensive range of measures, including an effective public awareness raising campaign. The plan has contributed to reducing pilotant levels to the extent that no exceedencies of the objectives for nitrogen dioxide or particulate matter were recorded during 2014. An action plan for Fife's other air quality management area at Apen Crescent and Firmland is also in place, which aims to mirror the success in Cooper, which has had no exceedencies recorded during 2014. Given the evidence that air pollution causes at least 2,000 early deaths in Scotland each year, in many areas it still continues to have dangerous levels of air pollution, such as Apen Crescent and Firmland constituency, what extra funding will the Scottish Government be making available to make active travel a more realistic option, in particular to improve safe routes for pedestrians and cyclists to public transport links? Given that the Scottish Government is planning to spend 200 times as much on building new roads as on tackling air pollution in the budget today, how likely is it that we will meet European air quality limits by 2020, as has been promised? On tackling local air pollution, it is also a matter for the local authorities with support and guidance provided by the Scottish Government and other partners. The Scottish Government provides practical support to local authorities through our policy and technical guidance and financial support through a series of annual funding schemes. Since 2005, the council has received around £530,000 in total to support air quality monitoring and associated work, plus around £520,000 since 2010, to help to implement the action plans in Cooper and Firmland. Many actions are being implemented at a national level, which are having a positive impact locally across Scotland, such as the green bus fund and the plug-in vehicles road map. On budget, I am sure that we have our stage 3 budget this afternoon, which I am sure that the Deputy First Minister will say more about that, but compared to 2013-14, we have increased investment in active travel by more than 80 per cent from £21.35 million for 2013-14 to £39.2 million in 2015-16. That is at a time when our overall capital budget has decreased by 26 per cent. The Scottish Government invests more than £1 billion per year in our public and sustainable transport to encourage people on to public transport and active travel modes. We have also invested £11 million in the development of the Charge Place Scotland network of electric vehicle charging points, which now comprises more than 400 units with many more being commissioned over the coming months. To ask the Scottish Government what impact it expects its proposals on land reform to have in west Scotland region. The land reform bill, currently before Parliament, will result in real improvements in how land is owned, used and managed across Scotland. Land ownership by communities has gone from strength to strength, and there are impressive examples of community buy-outs throughout the country. In the west of Scotland, for example, in 2006, the Neilston community trust registered an interest and purchased a former bank building that continues to be used as a community hub and resource, as well as office space. More recently, in 2014, the Arran community land initiative saw the acquisition of 79 acres to develop a community woodland on the island. Building on successes like that, the Community Empowerment Scotland Act 2015 provides for the extension and streamlining of the community right-to-buy process. For the first time, urban communities will be able to use the statutory community right-to-buy. Through the legislation and the Government's 1 million-acre strategy, we anticipate that many more communities, the length and breadth of Scotland, including in the west of Scotland region, will be able to realise the many benefits from acquiring land. The revised community right-to-buy legislation is coming into force on 15 April this year. I thank the minister for that answer. Will the minister give her clear support and indicate a timescale for introducing compulsory sale orders so that local authorities can take the lead in bringing vacant and derelict land back into use, particularly for town centres and rural communities? I have already indicated during our stage 1 debate that we are supportive of the issue of compulsory sale orders, and we are considering the issue around them. We are supportive of them, because we can see that vacant and derelict land and or buildings being brought back into use. In terms of bringing on to bringing forward an effective compulsory sales order, that will take time and careful consideration to ensure that it is effective and within competence. If re-elected, the Government would actively explore bringing forward proposals for a compulsory sale order forward in the next term of government as part of the Government's wider land reform programme. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the impact that leaving the EU could have on Scotland's fishing and farming communities. The UK Government has not consulted the Scottish Government the impact that the UK exit from the EU would have on Scotland's fishing and farming communities. Nor, I believe, has it directly consulted those communities that would be directly affected. EU membership provides a range of benefits that include direct access to financial assistance, free access to a common food export market of over 500 million consumers, and the protection of opportunities offered by being part of a major global trading bloc. Some of the benefits EU membership brings to Scotland's farming and fishing communities. Clearly, in support for agriculture, we have billions of euros making its way to Scottish farmers and crofters and weather rural communities between now and 2020, which would not otherwise be there given its UK policy to scrap direct payments, and we are only protected by EU membership. That is one direct benefit for the agricultural sector in terms of seafood. Clearly, many of our seafood exporters rely on the European markets. I have to say that it is fascinating to note that the UK farming minister, George Eustice, has just declared for the leave campaign, having said just a couple of weeks ago or so that it was up to the leave campaign to explain what would happen to cap payments in the event of the UK leaving Europe. Therefore, I laid down the challenge to him today. Can he please explain to Scotland's farmers and crofters what will happen to the billions of euros that make their way to Scotland if the UK leaves Europe? That concludes portfolio questions on rural affairs food and the environment, and we now move to portfolio questions on justice and law. To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure equal access to justice in environmental matters. The Scottish Government has undertaken a significant programme of reform to the justice system, with the aim of making the court system more efficient and accessible. The Courts Reform Act 2014 codifies recent changes to standing, i.e. entitlement, to bring a case. The result is a clear, broader entitlement to take a case to court, which we expect will benefit those with an interest in public interest litigation, including cases that are concerned with environmental matters. However, seeking redress to the courts may involve considerable cost, and that is mitigated by the ability to access legal aid, if eligible, and to apply to the court for a protective expenses order, or PEO, in certain cases, including certain environmental cases. A PEO protects the litigant from any expense beyond the limit set out in the PEO. We are also progressing plans to publish a consultation paper on options covering areas such as the potential role of an environmental court or tribunal. I thank the minister for his response, because this is a vital issue. The R House Convention exists because the environment cannot go to court itself. People must protect it, sometimes with legal action, but, as you will be aware, this can be prohibitively expensive by anyone's reckoning. I agree that a specialist environmental court could and would help. The Justice Committee support one, the SNP manifesto, promised an options paper, and the Scottish Government has repeatedly told Parliament that one is coming, but still we have no paper and no timeline. Will the Parliament see one before PIRDA? I certainly agree with a lot of what Alison Johnson said about the purpose of justice and protecting the environment. It does not have a voice of its own, and I recognise that. Certainly on the point about the manifesto commitment, it is our intention to publish a consultation paper prior to the dissolution of Parliament. The minister has largely answered my question, but can I welcome the commitment to the publication of an options paper? I look forward to seeing that before the dissolution of Parliament. Certainly, I would happily confirm that. I appreciate Mr Campbell's interest in this issue and, indeed, that of other members of the chamber, and we will fulfil our commitment. To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to improve the prison estate. I recently announced plans for the redevelopment of the women's custodial estate. In addition, the Scottish Prison Service will progress its estate development plan, described within the Scottish Government's infrastructure investment plan to deliver a fit for purpose prison estate. I thank the cabinet secretary for that reply. The cabinet secretary will be aware that we have had discussions in the past regarding the replacement for HMP Greenock, with substantial investment already made in the initial site and with the current HMP Greenock having a limited lifespan. It would be grateful if the cabinet secretary can provide any assurances to the people in the west of Scotland in terms of the replacement for HMP Greenock, which is certainly firmly in the Scottish Government's plans for the future. The site in Verklyde remains available to the Scottish Prison Service for the replacement of HMP Greenock, which is one of the prisons that it has identified that requires to be replaced. For the replacement of that particular facility, obviously a detailed plan will be brought forward and for the SPSN to secure capital funding for that particular course of action. However, that site in Verklyde remains in the ownership of the SPS, and it would be available to the SPS should choose to use that site for a replacement of HMP Greenock in the future. The cabinet secretary will be aware that issues were raised about the unacceptable conditions of the toilet for remand prisoners at Contenvale by members of the former prison visiting committees. Given complaints about the prison estate and other issues that are now covered by the new independent prison monitoring service, can he comment on the reported problems with the new service, which include poor implementation of reforms and inadequate communication? Can he provide assurances that the Government will address those issues with immediate effect? I am presuming that the member is making reference to the inspectorate's recent report of HMP Contenvale, which highlighted a number of areas in which it should recognise that significant improvement has been made in Contenvale. We should put on record the fact that significant improvement has been made as a result of the actions of the staff at Contenvale. Equally, it also highlighted areas in which further improvements need to be made, and the issue around night sanitation was highlighted. The member will be aware that the Scottish Prison Service has proposed that, while it starts the decommission process at Contenvale, just over half of the women from Contenvale will be relocated to the young offenders institution in Poment. I have approved that proposal, which will be implemented over the coming months and should be taken forward by this summer. That will allow, in particular those women who have issues around night sanitation facilities at Contenvale, to be relocated to Poment, while the Scottish Prison Service then starts the decommissioning of the Contenvale facility with a view to creating and building the new national facility for 80 women in the next couple of years. The cabinet secretary has set out in general his plans for improving the estate. Can he give us any indication in light of the Government's continued commitment to reduce the prison population, although it stayed stubbornly at the same level over the last five years? What impact reducing the population will have on his plans and what timescales does he know in relation to that reduction? The first thing is that the member is actually wrong, is that the prison population over the last couple of years has actually declined. It has stabilised, but it has been a decline over recent years. First of all, it was incorrect on that matter. The member will also be aware of the programme that we have set out for the rebuilding of the new female custodial estate, which will reduce our capacity within the female estate considerably. A key part of that is because we are placing greater focus on community alternative disposals, which we know are much more effective in tackling offending behaviour as a means in which we can seek to reduce our prison population overall. That will be a key part of the approach that we take forward with the redesign of the custodial estate alongside a greater focus on using more effective, robust community disposals, which will help to reduce re-offending rates in Scotland, which are incidentally at a 16-year low as a result of the progress that we have made over recent years. What I want to do is to build on that and to accelerate that yet further. Part of that will assist us in helping to reduce the female prison estate and the male population overall in Scotland. To ask the Scottish Government what impact the cashback for communities programme is having in the north-east of Scotland. We are rightly proud of our unique cashback for communities programme and have published information by local authority area on the cashback website. That demonstrates that, up to the end of March 2015, young people from the north-east of Scotland, including local authority areas of Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee City and parts of Murray, have directly benefited from nearly £5.5 million of cashback investment, delivering more than 250,000 activities and opportunities for young people in the north-east of Scotland. May I very much welcome the £5.5 million that has been recycled from the pockets of criminals for the benefit of public good in the north-east of Scotland, as it does elsewhere across Scotland. Can the minister indicate what criteria he is likely to wish to see used for future selection of cashback projects? The approach that we have taken over the past three phases of allocating cashback money has been to work with partner organisations of which there are 14 who are responsible for running projects across the country. That ranges from sporting organisations right through to cultural organisations in youth groups, and they have a particular focus on areas that are deprived and where there are disadvantage young people. We are presently at the coming towards the end of phase 3 of that funding, which was up to March 2017, and I am presently considering the arrangements for phase 4 of that particular programme. I want to ensure that it is much more targeted on the private areas. It has a focus on assisting us in reducing inequalities within our communities and in doing so, maximising the benefit for the communities that can come from the cashback scheme. There is no doubt that this has been an extremely successful programme of taking money from criminals and putting it back into our communities, and we intend to make sure that we build on the important work that we have achieved over the past six years with the cashback programme. To ask the Scottish Government what support the justice system gives to people with autism. The Scottish Government is committed to improving the lives of people with autism. For those who are coming into contact with the criminal justice system, the support of an appropriate adult is available to individuals over 16 years of age. Their role includes facilitating understanding or communication for an accused person, suspect, victim or a witness with autistic spectrum disorder during police procedures. For those under 16, support would be offered by a responsible adult. To assist vulnerable individuals giving evidence in court, there is now greater access to special measures, including the use of screens or giving evidence via video link. Similar measures are also available for the purposes of giving evidence in civil proceedings. Tribunal hearings tend to be more informal and will be flexible in the arrangements to support vulnerable people giving evidence. I thank the minister for that answer, and he demonstrates very clearly that anyone who has an autism spectrum disorder faces particular barriers when accessing any system. Can he maybe give us an update on what training is available for front-line police officers, for ffiscals and ffiscals staff to ensure that if a person, victim or alleged perpetrator is given the correct support to ensure that justice is given? I will certainly write to Christine McKelvie with more detail on that. Training is clearly a vital issue when dealing with those with particular needs. I thank the member for raising this really important issue. I understand that representatives from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service have recently been in touch with the National Autistic Society for Scotland, with a view to developing training and policy in relation to how to staff to interact with those with autism. As the training of ffiscals and other staff is a matter for the Crown Office, however, I would be more than happy to raise the member's concerns with Lord Advocate, who may wish to provide further information on that. In addition, I am aware that Scottish Police Force, prior to the creation of Police Scotland, did undertake training in 2010. Police Scotland remains engaged with the autism network Scotland and continues to identify and share good practice and localities. However, as I say, I will write with further detail to the member. To ask the Scottish Government what the police are doing to tackle noise news and domestic properties. Responsibility for dealing with the majority of complaints about domestic noise rests with the local authorities who have a duty to investigate such complaints under the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, or, depending on the nature of the complaint, the noise provisions under part 5 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, etc. Scotland Act 2004. In some instances, the police can become involved. Legislation grants authorised officers and local authorities with various powers to deal with noise nuisance under the Anti-Social Behaviour legislation. An officer may issue a warning notice to the person responsible for excessive noise. If the warning notice is not complied with, other measures available include fixed penalty notices or the power to enter premises to seize noise-making equipment. Abatement notices are also available under the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. George Adam. I thank the minister for his response. Is the minister aware that one of the most regular complaints that I receive is that of noise from useless neighbours and constituents are moved from police to local authority trying to find a solution? Unless the local authority actually catches a person in the act, then my constituents are told that nothing can be done for them and I have seen families torn apart and children sleeping at their grandparents' home just to get a decent night's sleep. Does the minister agree with me that local authorities should and could be doing far more to assist people when dealing with this issue? Certainly, I am very sorry to hear the experience of Mr Adam's constituents in Paisley. As clearly the situation described by Mr Adam, it would be very distressing in dealing with neighbours' noise. The local authority perhaps has been unable to resolve the situation to their satisfaction, but I have every sympathy with those suffering from such a situation. I fully agree that it is unacceptable that those strains are being placed in normal family life caused by the actions of inconsiderate and selfish behaviour of neighbours. However, when a local authority investigates a noise complaint, it must consider the facts and circumstances of each case when deciding what action to take. I am aware that an environmental health officer must either witness the noise or be in a position to measure the level of noise to determine whether the law is being breached. In cases in which it has not been possible to witness or measure the noise as it happens, local authorities may install recording equipment in homes to establish whether acceptable levels are being breached and enable them to take appropriate enforcement action. My officials have been in contact with Renfrewshire Council and have been informed by the council that they provide the service, but, clearly, given the experience of Mr Adam's constituents, that might not be widely known. There may be a case for making sure that the neighbours are notified that this is a potential solution to the problem and to build the evidence base. To ask the Scottish Government how the justice directorate is tackling violence against women. The Scottish Government is committed to tackling and eradicating violence against women and girls. We have committed £20 million over the period of 2015 to 2018 from the justice portfolio to support a range of projects and initiatives. We are strengthening the law in this area and seeking views on a new specific offence of domestic abuse. We have established the equally safe joint strategic board, which will drive forward real and lasting change through key areas such as justice and prevention. As a Government, however, we recognise that to truly achieve our goal, enhancing the justice system in isolation, is not enough. It is through tackling the root causes of gender inequality in all aspects of our life that we will realise our true goal of eradicating violence against women and girls. I thank the cabinet secretary for that comprehensive amount of work that we are doing. Could I further ask the cabinet secretary how the Scottish Government is supporting children and young people who witness domestic violence? I am grateful to the issue that the member has raised, which is an important matter. We have to remember that a whole family can be severely affected by domestic abuse, especially where children have been involved. In terms of the support for victims, there are a range of existing measures to support vulnerable witnesses through our justice system, including children who witness domestic abuse. In addition, to assist children who are giving evidence, for example, all those under 18 are entitled to supportive measures such as screening and through other video link systems in order to assist them as we move through the court process. In addition to this, the children's services fund supports a range of specialist services that offer direct support to children and young people who have experienced domestic abuse. The member can be assured that the Government will be underlending in its commitment to make sure that we continue to tackle all forms of domestic violence that are perpetrated against women and girls. Can I ask the cabinet secretary when he will publish the research commission on commercial sexual exploitation and when the symposium into that research will take place? Some of that work is coming to its completion, so part of the stakeholder meetings that were due to take place were due to be completed this month. Once that work is being undertaken and we have engaged with all the various stakeholders, we will then be in a position to consider the final paper that comes from the research and the work that we have engaged in with other stakeholders. Question 7. The name of Lewis MacDonald has not been lodged and an explanation has been provided. Question 8, Iain Gray. To ask the Scottish Government what action the cabinet secretary for justice will take to allow survivors of child abuse in care prior to 1964. I will respond to the member's questions as I have responsibility for the policy on time bar. I have had the opportunity to engage with survivors. As the member will know, this is a complex and sensitive issue. I have heard personally from survivors about the difficulties that they have experienced in trying to raise a claim in the civil courts and I can very much understand their feelings of injustice. That is why I intend to lift the three-year limitation period from civil actions in cases of historic child abuse. As we have already previously committed, a draft bill will be published before the end of this parliamentary session. As Mr Gray is aware, the limitation period only applies to actions based on harm that occurred after 26 September 1964. For any harm that occurred before this date, the law of prescription applies. We gave serious consideration to the removal of the law of prescription, but the legal issues for those cases were too difficult to overcome. We are of the view that the traversal law of prescription would be incompatible with the European Convention of Human Rights. I know that that has come as a great disappointment to many survivors and I can understand their frustration. However, the legal issues in respect to prescription mean that there appears to be no viable legislative solution for the pre-1964 cases. We are however looking at what else can be done for survivors in this group, which includes looking closely at experiences and other jurisdictions, and that work is on-going. No one doubts the complexities, but in the recent meeting with survivors held by the Cabinet Secretary for Education, she said that, prior to Parliament rising, a paper would be produced with those options for potential action. Is that still the intention of the Scottish Government? I can confirm that Ms Constance met survivors on 11 February, and she has committed to showing progress in this work before Parliament dissolves. Many thanks. That concludes that item of business. We will now move to the next item of business, which is a debate on motion number 15693, in the name of John Swinney.


I thank you and that concludes our urgent questions. I'm now moving on to topical questions. Anna Sarawa To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the response to and the impact of the contamination of water at the cancer ward at the Royal Hospital for children in Glasgow? Shona Robison I welcome this opportunity to update the chamber on the work that is being done by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and the incident management team to address this issue. I am sure that all of us are overriding concern and will be the wellbeing of the children and families in the affected areas. I have spoken today with the board's chair and chief executive and they were clear that no patients are giving any cause for concern as a result of bacterial infections associated with this incident. However, the board with support from health protection Scotland are taking appropriate precautionary measures to ensure that any infection is contained and addressed. Following identification of the bacteria, testing from the water tank supplying both the Queen Elizabeth university hospital and the Royal hospital for children has tested negative. A range of control measures has been put in place, including some taps and shower heads being taken out of use for chemical disinfection and point of use filters are in the process of being installed. Filters are due to be in place by close of play today. Sampling will be undertaken to ensure that the water is deemed safe. I have asked Health Protection Scotland to co-ordinate a thorough investigation as a matter of urgency to review all of those matters and make any recommendations for the NHS going forward. I will ensure that this review is then reported to Parliament. Anas Sarwar. The news of contamination of the water supply at the cancer ward at the children's hospital in Glasgow has caused understandable worry and concern for patients of very sick children. I have spoken directly with parents affected, they are angry, distressed and understandably concerned. Parents who tell me they will learn more about the problem from a newspaper than in any communication from the health board. They also tell me that this issue has now been running for three weeks, but it has only come into the public domain in the last few days. There is clearly an issue with transparency, so can the cabinet secretary advise when she was first made aware of the issue and what communications she has had prior to today with Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board? Can she tell why it took a press inquiry for the health board to go public and why there has not been better communication with patients and patients? I absolutely understand the worry and concern of parents. I have been assured by the health board that they have indeed been keeping parents informed, but I will certainly follow up what Anas Sarwar is saying. If he is saying that that is not the case, they are saying that they have had extensive communication with parents who would understandably anxious. I was first made aware of the issue on 11 March. Scottish Government officials were made aware of the issue prior to that, and Health Protection Scotland has been helping with the board in order to address the issues of concern that have been highlighted. I should say that one of the bacteria that is involved is very rare indeed, so that is quite a complex matter in trying to get to the bottom of the issue. The priority has obviously been the welfare and safety of the children, and that is why the procedures have been taken to ensure that, for example, there are alternative cleaning facilities while the taps and shower heads have been getting the filters fitted. If the water testing is negative, after the filters have all been fitted by the end of today, they are hoping to have the water supply back up and running by tomorrow evening, but that is dependent on having a negative result from the water testing. Scotland's flagship hospital, yet parents have spoken about a lack of hot water for nearly three weeks. That has meant the inability of children cancer patients to even bathe, some being forced to take a taxi to other sites so that they can wash. No, no, no. You had three questions in your first. With respect to the issue that has been raised by concerned parents, that is three weeks without the ability to wash their children. Three weeks? No, Mr Sauer. I said a supplementary. Three weeks for the urgent resolution. Will the cabinet secretary take this opportunity to investigate this further and to apologise directly to the patients and their parents? Cabinet secretary. Well, of course, I would apologise to the parents and the children for the inconvenience that they have experienced, but I am sure that everybody would understand that the most important thing here is safety. If the shower heads and taps are being tested and investigated, then that has to take its course. Those are complex issues and they need to be fully investigated. That bacteria is very rare indeed. I can assure Anasara and the parents and children that absolutely everything has been done to get to the bottom of this. That is why the focus has been now on fitting the filters in those immune-compromised wards. By the end of today, that will have been done. As I said, if the tests are clear and negative, then the water supply will be put back on. As I have already said in my initial answer, Health Protection Scotland will, of course, be looking into all of those matters, and if there are recommendations that can be made in order to improve the situation going forward, then of course that is what will happen. Reports are very worrying, and I welcome the news that none of the children involved are currently giving cause for concern. As the cabinet secretary has already stated that tests have been carried out at the Queen Elizabeth university hospital, we are concerned that the patients who have previously been raised in the building will be asked a question to the cladding of the building. How will the cabinet secretary reassure patients and those who are living in Glasgow that those hospitals are fit for purpose? The issue is completely unrelated to the cladding on the building. Those hospitals are state-of-the-art facilities. They are not alone in sometimes having issues with bacterial infections breaking out, particularly when they are rare. They are very complex to identify the source of that, and that is why everybody has been put in their shoulders to the wheel in order to get to the bottom of that. I would hope that all members will support the board and Health Protection Scotland and the incident management team in their efforts to do so. The focus here is on the safety of the children within the hospital. That should be our main priority, too. Fulton MacGregor. I am losing patience. Can the cabinet secretary confirm that there have been no infections as a result of this incident at the Queen Elizabeth hospital and ask if NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have taken full advice on handling this incident from both Health Protection Scotland and Health Facility Scotland? As we know, there have been no infections of adults in the Queen Elizabeth hospital. The support by Health Protection Scotland and Health Facility Scotland has been there, and the board has been working flat out to get to the bottom of this. They have taken urgent action immediately upon realising that this bacterial infection was present, and they have done everything that they possibly could to get to the bottom of it as quickly as they could. They have had the expert advice and support in order to do that. Those are complex issues, and we should get behind those who are trying to resolve it and support them in their efforts. That concludes the topical questions. I will suspend briefly before we move on to the point of order. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I wish to raise a point of order in relation to the timetabling of the scheduling of the urgent question and the topical question. I think that, as we have just seen in the exchanges of very serious matter raised by Anas Sarwar, I do not think that members were allowed to give proper development to the urgency of the issue because of the restriction and the urgent question that has been raised. Mr Kelly, thank you. As you know, that is a matter for the business managers, and in relation to both very serious topics, Mr Sarwar in fact gave three questions in his first one, which I did not mind at all. Please sit down just now. It is not a point of order. The timetabling of the business for today was set by the business managers. We have to start stage 3. I have given a little extra time. You know yourself the timetabling for stage 3, which must go ahead, so please sit down. That deals with the matter.


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Wow two vet jersey autos in this case 48 of 150 for the blue jays nice card yes Yes, I did there we go. What's going on noah Bobby witt It's a weird case green shimmer denser guzman angels Seven of 99 Your dad watching me all the time First single time for a juju touchdown. That's what I say tigers speckled jackson job 176 of 299 first woman refractor auto dodger samuel munoz 24 499 What do you mean rub? I was wondering where you're going with that sayasazuki Second half of the hobby case. I know a gray touchdown. No gray scores like every week now Oh, they call the bag sup herk Come on juju juju Not juju glad he missed him. I don't know that is a gold refractor benny montgomery rockies 9 to 50 sweet gold Sayasazuki base first woman auto rangers jojo blackman wander inserts shimmer red sox nick york check spots here All right, guys still tend to go on donor's optic basketball half case number 55 10 teams left Refractor giants first woman ryan reckley That's number 337 of 499 twins base first woman auto jake rucker j rod base rookie illa hymn as white sox refractor that one's number 359 of 499 osprey colas insert steven kwan rookie refractor angels arol vera This one's numbered 15 of 499 speckle match jt schwarz 13 of 299 rookie fuchsia twins rois lewis 80 of 299 Yes, and he's a beast He's a beast Come on big hit aqua first bowman jonathan mehia cardinals Number 45 of 125 Pena rookie a base first woman auto pirates jack herman Guys, you got more bowman breaks in the morning On the baseball channel with matt check out the mlb break schedule on the channel Got a lot of pyts tomorrow purple shimmer d backs jordan lullar numbered 134 of 250 gunner henderson Uh, yeah, I have to see who's eligible gunner henderson could do it Who else I guess it really depends. It's pretty early for me to think about. I can't think of many other players Adley won't because he was eligible this year Um Cost us might be a guy If he gets every day with the red socks Yeah, really it really depends Could see grace and rodriguez A couple of orials guys up there I remember those anthony I used to play super nintendo on that with all my friends Yeah, this is who alvarez. Yeah Yeah, a lot of guys that could play I just it's tough to see like who's gonna play a lot Alvarez should get the opportunity but with competing team It's it's weird because like if he's not performing well like he's not gonna get a lot of playing time on a competing team So he's gonna have to start, you know, I have to be consistent blue refractor joey vato reds Number 67 of 150 See a guy like I don't know. I don't know. Volpe will play like volpe could be for al Aqua ray wave chris bryant rockies 48 of 199. Oh another guy, uh, rockies is equal tovar could be another name If he gets the started started shortstop in reds leonardo balkazar first bowman auto number two of 99 Pulling this guy's cards all over the place right now. Congrats reds Gigantic tube tvs. Oh my god, dude shimmer first bowman for the Rangers anthony guttillettas Yep, when it went out use it as a tv stand. Oh, yeah, that was everybody did that everybody did that Green refractor first bowman for the cardinals jonathan mehia Numbered 47 of 99 now every tv now is like up on the wall really Everyone mounts for tvs now. I guess you cuz yeah, I guess cuz you can twins first bowman base auto yasa mercedes Nice car for the twins now. Good box Invicta west calf leo Watson cruise eligible this year. Is he still Have eligible next year cruise has to have been eligible this year. He played most of season, right? Yeah I don't know though. I I don't know. It's always weird, right? If they do it by like games played or at bats or something Royce Lewis would probably sell of eligibility If he tore his ACL, right? Me could Yeah, it looks like Lewis or cruise cruise sasa zuki Yes, what I thought because he played even at the end of 2021 as well so aqua ray wave josh jonathan yankees one of 199 base auto braves brandole mesquita brekkie refractor diamondbacks alex thomas Numbered 237 of 499 henry davis jackson jobe insert bobbywood jr. Rookie yellow refractor bobeshet blue jays That one's 20 of 75 rookie refractor auto for the Cardinals won. Yep has 315 to 499 Go nice rookie hit. Oh, we have a few sin victor with few origins breaks International blaster number five starts at 9 p.m. Eastern the tiered starts at 10 p.m. Eastern And shimmer first woman met simon won got us in I'm gonna have sam come in and uh Touch the case though Yeah, he's actually yeah, I should be on like five minutes Yeah, we'll use the lse company helicopter during emergencies Okay, that's all these cards order Yeah, right, dude sam would be in here on a sunday sam doesn't even watch the breaks when he's not working Speckle first moment twins brian akunya The 20s 159 of 299 Sayas azuki first woman base auto orioles collin burns refractor yankees joey gallo 25 of 499 Has anyone seen that new That christmas story sequel on HBO I'm wondering if it's any good at all Wife and I consider watching it last night and that we did not watch it But matt that works here said it's good, but I was gonna say But I need more than one opinion on a movie like that Got gold rookie refractor twins joe ryan twins having a pretty nice break here 49 to 50 Roger garry s first bowman Purple first bowman auto yankees benjamin callows 126 of 250. What's the watchers? purple shimmer first bowman twins yasa mercedes 213 of 250 last hobby box Jimmy panya. I don't I don't have netflix anymore At least for now. No plans to get it back anytime soon.  Yeah Neither have I I don't think I've had time to go see a movie I mean I just recently watched the new door Pretty far man pretty far Purple refractor meds francisco alvarez 214 of 250 blue rayway first bowman auto mariners kade marlowe 34 of 150 I'll check if any got a fuchsia rookie george kirby mariners 109 of 299 j allen Oh this uh, no, that's not numbered just how the Shades of greatness look it kind of has like the color of the team on it So like you'll see it more in the cubs one too Just how it looks onto the choice case now Well, it'll have a team color on it It's pretty noticeable when the insert has color on it like the gold or something. No, it's all good I don't think they have all the parallels, but they'll have like gold and I think I'll have like orange inserts in like atomic I think right I hope they have green. They'll have they have certain parallel They don't have all the base parallel like color, but they'll have some they have atomic like atomic gold orange It'll have a list on the checklist They might put the atomic is the 150 on those. I don't know That's true For the fall league Clean 9.5 out of 10 on the opening there I label opening Refreshing here six and eight teams to go on optic. I'm gonna drop a link for that first Optic case Yeah, of course, Vinny. Sorry, but I have something important. Nothing important on my phone right now So Victor sent me a message on discord saying trash team. I'm assuming you're talking about the bucks. Unfortunately, Jake Yeah All right, starting with a refractor auto nice one Mets. You're simon won 330 of 499 You go Mets blue ray wave All right. Good start to this case There you go. Royals color match. Daniel Vasquez 22 of 150 First bowman auto. There's a link in chat for you guys For optic half case number 55 for basketball and a base auto Mets will be fun. I'll just start for the Mets in the choice case Just six teams left. There's eight on the second half of that case as well What else the mixer is down to 10 the mixer is two thirds full. That's awesome International blaster origins 10 boxers 14 and 18 to go origins tiered just three to go Going up quick on this uh post holiday sunday. Anyone got the sunday scaries Jake and I are always here sunday night. So we don't have the sunday scaries necessarily Every sunday is scary First woman refractor auto pirates. You got jack harman 299 to 499. At least there's a lot of sports on today Yeah, that's true. The world cup being on every day is but it's is like spoiling me big time I wake up and watch internet like world cup soccer for like four hours a day before I do anything First woman base auto giants ryan wreckley Then some mitzvahs basketball on a hockey on or the nfl on it's been awesome. It's been the best It's like the one bright side of the world cup in november First woman auto blue jays jaden rudd What's going on killer? jaden rudd blue jays see some yellow and it's first bowman Orioles greg cullen 43 of 75 started off hot with the orioles and now we're back on the orioles here There we go low number there for you o's Base first woman auto d backs for hey barrosa Yeah, just from the from the group We're not mean And first woman auto mariners louis chevalier. No, no, no hating here I'll only be hating on the uh On the raiders in here. That's all I do I feel like I pick a new team of hate on every week But nobody hates their own team more than me. I just know The patriots give me better. We've been better. I've seen it. I've seen greatness in my lifetime And we're we're mid. We're we're we're super mid right now. You gotta spoil a good big time Oh, yeah As a pass but like now I have the highest expectations like I know what it looks like And what it looks like is they should have resigned brady When when he uh was a free agent Blue choice first woman auto cubs liam spence 16 of 150 You go cubby's nice color match First woman base auto going to the dodger samia munoz. Good box here And a gold shimmer first moment auto for the astros and manuel valdez three of 50 Good box there very good box there actually Oh, I'm sorry kill that. We were just talking about the bucks jake next to me as a bucks fan and uh It was it was not a good one. It was not a good one And and sacramental kings all over the place man Also, I'm sorry that you're a kings fan I'm magic fan though. We're not we're not far off Oh, that's in you got to give him to catch because all my fantasy team Yeah, that's actually funny when they go to review the booth whenever I have to text my phone. That's uh They're texting me to just decide to call So the nfl is not rigged. It's only like in favor of my fantasy team guys I don't know rigged even means checking filly's first moment Logan shirney to 224 99. Yeah, they're always looking at the score in my game Nice one filly's logan shirney first woman base auto dodger samia munoz Right. Yeah, they're getting they're getting better But for my entire life outside of life three or four years the kings have been not good First woman auto pirates michael burrows. That's all i'm saying I'm not sure how old you are, but I saw the kings be good in the early 2000s and then never again Yeah, daren fox is a beast though And you got um, what's his name? What's the what's the good rookie murray keegan murray? He's good. He got sabonis. Sabonis is a beast Get out of there ryan speckle first woman auto blue jays sebastian espino 298 of 299 ryan Pirates first woman base auto your dany de los Santos Nice card pirates and a base auto gnats evan lee. Oh, that's a sub killer I'd love to get season tickets to any any of my favorite teams The goal one day is just is the Have richwood shop to boston.  I'd like Blake um when you get pulled and the sixth. Can you come up on top load? First bowman refractor autopadres yardland susanna 172 of 499 He's got he's got force. I'm a little of a perfect game, bro I'll be like, sorry man Jason choreo first woman base auto guardians. Nice Nice choreo. There we go.  I've been a magic fan my whole life, which is I mean it's had ups and downs typically on the downside, but I know finals in my lifetime. I know finals twice in my life How I didn't get to the first one I was too young to to remember in what 96 97 Yellow first woman auto reds leonardo balkazar I said it earlier Been pulling this guy's card low numbered cards of this guy all day today There we go reds awesome hit That's going into mag as well Rockies base auto Juan Guerrero That's right. Carl first woman base auto marlin c and louis. I don't know why he signed Not in the the white box there. I don't know But he did Auto looks fine. I don't think that'll affect the grade whatsoever, but Oh, yeah, we are in florida. We're in a pop go, which is a little north of orlando I'm not sure if you're familiar with the area About half hour maybe 20 to 20 or 30 minutes more lando Depends if you drive there at midnight you try to get there like 20 minutes Hit them toll roads go like 75 Yeah Get on i4 go inside. When's the last time you got to go above the speed limit on i4 though? That's it on thanksgiving. That was about it, but that's thanksgiving Purple first woman auto rays astan lika stio 214 to 250 Yeah, treading away. Halliburton was uh Was a strange move Reds first woman auto yearling confidant And some gold a gold shimmer How do you hear foam White socks tana mcdougal first woman auto 38 of 50. Uh, i'm saying you're nice So again guys, if you're looking for more bowman breaks matt starting 10 a.m. Eastern tomorrow He's got a few pyt cases some 22 and 18 chrome mixers And Uh for tonight, we've just got optic basketball Um half case pyt breaks origins football international blaster breaks just a few left on origins hobby tiered case And only tend to go on the sunday funding mixer guys Which has honors flawless immaculate prism select All the good stuff man. Whoo rangers green first bowman auto.  Oh my god, just Dude, it's over Well, it's like about a dream team then you have like palo at like shooting guard Like six nine shooting guard You don't like shawn ryan I'm gonna tell them to come and chat now. I'll start saying go dolphins. All right. It's blue choice first woman auto tampa bay alexander ovalles 23 of 150 Blue ray wave royals first woman auto with the color match Daniel vasquez 111 of 150 and padres bass auto jackson maryl nice hit san diego All right last one guys, so we'll do a recap juju Watson. Oh, is that justin watson bucks legends? It's a receiver. That's why I'm saying that. I think it might be dude I thought he legit was gonna be good with the bucks He had like one good game with them And then never did anything ever again like never you like barely even played so steve Blue choice red socks first woman auto nathan hickey 31 of 150 base first woman auto going to the reds lay on auto bellcazar Another one for the reds And a green atomic on the back this one's going to the Giants alexander suarez first woman auto 28 of 99 juju Five you go on optic basketball half case number 55 guys Those five teams left are hawks blazers kings raptors and jazz hawks blazers kings raptors jazz Base autos up first. You got reds bellcazar Padres meryl filly's tonkle royals gonzales reds confidant rocky's guerrero Marlon z and lewis blue j's espino nationals heavenly pirates de los santos and burrows Dodgers munoz times two Mariners chivalier de backs burroso Blue j's rud Giants wreckley metz faunas mariners lebrada oryals burns braves mesquita twins mursadies pirates herman twins rucker rangers blackman Royals garcia astros valdez rocky's guerrero a's rodriguez metz schwarz Refractors now to 499 padres susanna shirney for the fillies herman pirates Juan for the metz nice one there And yep has rookie cardinals Munoz refracted to 499 dodgers padres verdugo Speckles the 299 blue j's espino rangers morta bell Matt schwarz purple to 250 yankees cowls Blue j's castillo. We had a connor scott insert auto going to the pirates there to 199 Now blue choice auto avi ace for the raise to 150 Spence for the cubs Hickey for the redsox a Vasquez royals to 150 raywave times two Dante williams oryals kade marlowe mariners Jersey autos these are the 150 sedrick mullins oryals flatty jr. blue j's green atomic to 99 alexander suarez giants yellow to 75 cullen for the um for the oryals Gold shimmer valdez astros the 50 mcdougal white sox to 50 gold mini diamond hernandez oryals to 50 base auto guardians jason choreo green morta bell yankees to 99 Green balkazar reds to 99 And yellow balkazar reds to 75 And that'll do it. Thanks again everybody God solo case is coming up next