 That concludes topical questions. The next item of business is a debate on motions 12210 and 12211 in the name of Humza Yousaf on appointment of Scottish ministers and junior Scottish ministers, and I invite members who wish to speak in the debate to press their request to speak buttons. I call on the First Minister to speak to and move the motions. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Before I do speak to my motion, can I first of all welcome Tim Eagle to the Scottish Parliament? We will have lots of political differences of that, there is simply no doubt, but can I genuinely wish him well? I don't think there's any greater honour than being able to represent your community in this nation's parliament, so I wish you all the very best in the role that you take up. Similarly, let me also contribute to Donald Cameron, MSP, who again for all of our political differences I always thought was very considered, very thoughtful, quite often, not always, but quite often non-partisan as well. Traits that I would suggest are very much needed in the Scotland office, Presiding Officer, but I wish to pay Donald Cameron tribute for all, or very often, working very constructively with the Scottish Government, and I wish him well to forward engaging with him, no doubt, in due course. To the motion in my name, which I, of course, move, I hope that Parliament will agree that Fiona Hyslop will be appointed as Cabinet Secretary, that COCAV Stuart and Jim Fairlie will be appointed as ministers in the Scottish Government. Let me start by paying tribute to Eleanor Whitham. She's been a valued member of my ministerial team since 2022, and she stepped down, as she has said publicly, from her current role as drugs and alcohol policy minister for health reasons. Importantly, I know those who are working collectively to address the harm that Scotland is experiencing due to drugs and alcohol, and in particular those with lived experience, who greatly appreciated Eleanor's open, honest and compassionate manner, and her work in taking forward proposals for reviewing drug laws. I sincerely hope that we will see Eleanor back in ministerial office in the future. I commend her for speaking courageously about her health and wish her all the very best for the future. Let me also thank Michael Matheson for his work in government over the past 13 years, as net zero secretary, justice secretary and most recently as health secretary. He had many notable achievements to his name and, through his roles, undoubtedly improved the lives of many people across the country. Most recently, as health secretary, he secured a fair deal with our NHS Scotland junior doctors and ensured that Scotland continues to be the only nation in the UK that has not lost a single day to strike action. Let me turn to those who are joining government for the first time. Colcab Stewart and Jim Fairlie. Colcab and Jim bring a wealth of significant professional experience to the roles that will translate well into ministerial office. The appointment of Colcab Stewart as Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development is a historic moment for this Government and for this Parliament. Colcab, as many will know, was a primary teacher in Glasgow and Edinburgh for three decades before becoming the first woman of colour to be elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2021. She is now the first woman of colour to hold ministerial office in this Scottish Government. I am proud to lead a party that has worked hard over many years to ensure a much greater diversity in our national Parliament. Whether it was the late and great Bashir Ahmad becoming the first person of colour to be elected to this Parliament or, indeed, as I have mentioned, Colcab now becoming the first woman of colour to serve in our Government, I think that we should all be proud of the progress that we are making to ensure that this Parliament better reflects the communities that we all seek to serve. Equally, of course, we all recognise that there is still much work in that regard to do. I am sure that Colcab's experience as convener of the Parliament's Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee will bring that experience to her new role. Of course, Colcab takes over from Christina McKelvie, who will now report directly to me as Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy. I know that she is looking forward to the challenges but also the opportunities ahead. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that Christina will take on that role with the empathy and the compassion that she has brought to every single role that she has had in Government. Jim Fairlie will become Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity as a former sheep farmer and the man who founded Scotland's first farmers market in Perth more than two decades ago. He is well versed in the needs of the agriculture and farming sector. I am pleased to say that he is already using his extensive experience in rural affairs, business, food and drink to drive forward this Government's priorities and stand up for rural Scotland. He is an excellent addition to the ministerial team into Government. I am also seeking Parliament's approval for the appointment of Fiona Hyslop as a Cabinet Secretary. I am deeply proud of the fact that her introduction to Cabinet means that we believe that we have the highest proportion of women in any Government in the world, in the Scottish Government, against something that we should all take great pride in. Fiona Hyslop is one of the most formidable, experienced and indeed accomplished ministers in Government. She has significant achievements throughout her life in Government, not least as the minister who was responsible for abolishing the backdoor tuition fees that were foisted on Scotland by the Labour and Liberal Democrats back in the early days of devolution. However, since her appointment as minister for transport last year, she has overseen progress on leaving mouth rail link, the removal of peak fares across all ScotRail services and, of course, bringing the Caledonian sleeper service into public ownership. Two other Cabinet Secretaries take up new and expanded roles that reflect the Government's priorities. Neil Gray, who has become Cabinet Secretary for Health, has proved himself as a highly capable Cabinet Secretary since his appointment. He is well respected across the business community and he engages well with stakeholders, and I know that he will bring the exact same energy and the same drive to his new brief. Neil will be charged with supporting the most important institution and the most precious institution in our country, the national health service. He will support its recovery from Covid, work on bringing it down waiting times and reforming the service to improve outcomes for patients. Manny MacAllan is taking on the new expanded brief of economy net zero and energy. It is right to combine those portfolios, given the massive economic opportunity of the green economy. That is more important now, given the attempts by certainly Westminster-based parties to derail Scotland's green revolution. Scotland has formidable strength in the energy sector, and building on those strengths will be at the very forefront of the global race to net zero and home to further green investments, jobs and the wellbeing economy. Manny will also be responsible for driving forward a green industrial strategy in the refresh of the national strategy for economic transformation in the coming months. To conclude, we have a strong team across Government, a diverse team across Government and with our green partners and a wider SNP parliamentary group, which is focused on this Government's priorities and the missions that drive them, namely equality, opportunity and community. That is the team that will continue to deliver and to stand up for the people of Scotland and, of course, advocate that the best future for our country is one where all the decisions about Scotland are made by the people of Scotland. I ask the Parliament to support those appointments today and I am delighted to move the motion in my name. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I echo the First Minister's welcome to my newest colleague, Tim Eagle, here in Parliament today. To pay tribute to Donald Cameron, he was a fine parliamentary in this place and I am sure that he will be a fine minister in the Scotland Office. This is a reshuffle that the First Minister did not want to make. A reshuffle brought about by the actions of Michael Matheson, someone that Humza Yousaf believed to be a man of integrity, a man who had to sack himself because the First Minister was too weak to do so. This winter, Michael Matheson should have been saving a renic chess, but he spent it instead trying to save his own career. Whether misleading the media or mismanaging our health service, SNP ministers have repeatedly failed the accountability test. Mr Matheson leaves Government without a shred of integrity, but having failed to dismiss him, Humza Yousaf is left without a shred of credibility. For the First Minister, the reshuffle was a missed opportunity—a missed opportunity to reset his failing leadership, a missed opportunity to regain control of the agenda, a missed opportunity to kick the Greens into touch, and he ducked it because the green tail continues to wag the SNP dot. Let us hear Mr Hawley. Regardless of how far and how fast she falls, this is still a Government that cannot escape the long shadow cast by Nicola Sturgeon. I welcome Fiona Hyslop's appointment and I recognise the First Minister recognising that he is blazing his trail in bringing more women into his cabinet, and it is good to see her in a role as transport secretary. Such is the influence of the Greens, that this Government is now recycling its cabinet ministers. We wish her well, and in the words of Kate Forbes, we hope that she has more success making the trains run on time than her predecessors. As Neil Gray takes over where others, including Humza Yousaf himself, have failed, it is a critical role, and we wish Mr Gray well in it, and we look forward to working with him. However, he must simply see, as he takes on this new role, that doing more of the same will not deliver the change that patients so clearly need. Two years after Humza Yousaf announced an NHS recovery plan, our NHS is still in crisis. Surely, the First Minister can now see what every patient in Scotland sees, that his recovery plan has failed and it should now be scrapped. While there is no place in his Government for Kate Forbes, her close ally, Jim Fairlie, takes up a rural post. The First Minister is reworking an old proverb. He is keeping his friends close, but the friends of his enemies even closer. Presiding Officer, I would like to welcome Cokab Stewart to the Government. It was inspiring, as the First Minister said, to see the first woman of colour join a Scottish administration, and I wish her well as the new minister for culture, Europe and international development. Given how frequently it is nice to see him here in the chamber today, given how frequently her boss Angus Robertson is out of the country topping up his airmiles, I am sure that she will be kept very busy deputising for him. For the sake of the country, for the sake of our farmers, our hospitals, our roads and our railways, I hope that those new ministers will tackle the problems that the SNP has created and neglected over the past 17 years. Sadly, I do not live in hope, but as the new minister's climate board Humza Yousaf's sinking ship, it can take comfort from one fact so long as the First Minister remains in bute house, their jobs are secure. The real lesson from the Michael Matheson scandal is that Humza Yousaf would rather burn what is left of his own credibility than take action against one of his own ministers. This is just the latest example of an SNP Government distracted by division and pursuing the wrong priorities. Scotland surely deserves better than this. I also pay tribute to Donald Cameron and welcome Tim Eagle to this Parliament and just say to him that he has big shoes to film. On behalf of the Scottish Labour Party, I would also like to welcome Jim Fairlie and Calcob Stewart to their appointments as ministers for the first time and to Fiona Hyslop, who is the SNP's very own comeback queen. Before turning to each of the members in turn, let me make a few general observations. The new ministers have a hard task ahead of them. They have to wrestle with poor budget decisions in their portfolios. They have to wrestle with keeping their Green Party colleagues on side, which I know Jim Fairlie has views about, and with ensuring that their devices have the correct data packages applied when they go on holiday, because roaming charges or more accurately, the cover-up of them is why we are here today. We have an SNP Government with 30 cabinet secretaries and ministers, the largest of Governments ever in Scotland at a cost of more than £3 million, and that is salaries alone. The question that I keep asking myself is, are they worth it? With ferries not sailing, the A9 not being dualled, hospital and GP surgeries cancelled, 830,000 Scots on waiting less, I fear the answer is no. The Government is failing, and I am not convinced that the addition of more ministers will stop the ship from sinking. If the SNP Government continues to grow, as it has done since 2007, then for those who did not get picked this time, I am sure that there is still plenty of opportunity to get a turn before 2026. Let me welcome Jim Fairlie in particular to his post as Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity. Mr Fairlie is well liked by all across this chamber, and his knowledge in the agriculture sector will no doubt be invaluable to Parliament. However, Mr Fairlie comes from one of the SNP's factions advocating change rather than the status quo. It is recognised that he is the fig leaf for the First Minister who did not want to recruit the actual change agenda candidate Kate Forbes to his team. I am sure that Mr Fairlie will be more than up to the job in her absence. Let me also welcome Calcab Stewart to her new position as Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development and recognise that she becomes the first woman of colour to become a minister in Scotland. I congratulate her for that achievement. However, that brief brings with it a lot of travel. In fact, many positions in the Scottish Government seem to include a fair bit of globetrotting, but I will leave it to Ms Stewart to decide if charging the taxpayer £11,000 to deliver a 15-minute speech in Los Angeles is better value than popping in via Zoom. However, I would also like to welcome Fiona Hyslop back to the Scottish Government in her role as Cabinet Secretary for Transport. She was doing the same job as a minister and is clearly being promoted because she knows where the bodies are buried with the ferry fiasco and the lack of dualling of the A9. Members here, as long as I have been, will know that Ms Hyslop has worn many hats under each of the SNP's First Ministers, so she will doubtlessly bring a wealth of knowledge to the brief. In the Cabinet, then demoted by both former SNP First Ministers, Fiona Hyslop has survived them all. I am reminded of Persephone who in Greek mythology leaves the underworld for six months of the year and goes back for the remaining six. I do hope for Fiona Hyslop's sake that she does not make it out of the underworld. She is about to enter at least occasionally. Whilst I want to offer the Scottish Labour Party's good wishes to the three members going into government today, it is a government that is tired, out of ideas and out of road. Scotland has got worse under the SNP and no matter how gifted these individuals may be, the die is cast. Change is coming. Thanks, Presiding Officer. I also welcome Tim Eagle to the chamber and I sincerely hope his jokes are better than Craig Hoy's. I want to begin by thanking those who are leaving their positions in government for all their work. I have found both Eleanor Whitham and Michael Matheson to be constructive and have engaged well with me on a variety of issues. I am very much looking forward to working with Neil Gray in his new role as cabinet secretary for health and Christina McKelvie as the new minister for alcohol and drugs policy. I know how fierce they both are in their approach to their portfolios. There are many challenges to deal with and I am sure that they will both take the opportunity to be both open and collaborative as their predecessors have. My party is hugely pleased to see the return of transport to a cabinet secretary position and congratulate Fiona Hyslop on her return to cabinet. My colleagues are looking forward to continuing to work with her on cutting car miles, improving rail and bus services and improving connectivity across the country. I also want to congratulate Mary McCallan on her expanded portfolio. Joining up the economy and net zero, we hope will open all the opportunities of a green economy. Finally, to the two new ministers, Jim Fairlie and Cokab Stewart. Congratulations to you both on your first appointment in government. I know that my colleagues are looking forward to working with both of you. I think that it is worth noting the significance of Cokab Stewart's appointment in making her the first woman of colour to enter government, making not just Parliament but Government better reflect Scotland as a whole. We hope that collectively, recess is giving you some time to get to grips with your new portfolios, even if it has not given you a rest. Your friends and families are, I am sure, very proud of you all, and we are looking forward to working with you for what is next to bring Scotland a bright future. Can I start with what I thought was the best contribution that Gillian Mackay was thoughtful, considered and rose to the occasion? I have to say that I have sat through many of those contributions before over the years, and I always find it genuinely sad that politicians are unable to rise to the occasion, no matter what the occasion is. I mean, this is an important day, particularly for those that are entering government for the first time. For literally five minutes, all you have to do really is rise to the occasion, and Craig Hoy singularly failed to do that. No wonder, Presiding Officer, we heard cries of bring back Jackson. I fully endorse those cries, though I do get it, Presiding Officer. Craig Hoy really has no hope of ministerial office unless he denates to the Tory party, he might well become a lord and then, of course, be brought back into the Scotland office. Who knows, that might well happen too. Jackie Baillie's contribution, I tend to believe that it is better to let the Scottish people have their verdict on whether or not we have done a good job or not. That is why we were elected of course in 2007. We were re-elected in 2011, re-elected in 2016, re-elected in 2021. The one thing that I can say with Jackie Baillie is that she shouts you are on your way out, she shouts that your time has come, she shouts that the die is cast. All I can say to Jackie Baillie is that she is short of policy ideas, short of any constructive ideas but full of hubris, and people will see through that time and time again. It is a very unique Scottish Labour trait, of course, that they take the people of this country for granted. Is it worth it having an SNP Government? I would suggest asking those 90,000 children that are no longer in poverty because of the action that we take. Is it worth it? What about those record young people from areas of deprivation who are now going to university? Is it worth it? Or the under 22 is the fee bus travel and so on, and so forth? I can see, my time is up. I will end exactly where I started. I hope that the Parliament will agree to the changes that I have made. In particular, can I welcome Jim Fairlie and Cokab Stewart to the Government and I have no doubt that they will serve this Government well and this country well too? There are two questions to be put. The first question is that motion 12210, in the name of Humza Yousaf, on appointment of Scottish Minister, be agreed. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to vote, and there will be a short suspension to allow members to access the digital voting system.