 Thank you. That concludes the debate on three years on Brexit and Workers Right. It's now time to move on to the next item of business, which is an announcement by the Economy and Fair Work Committee on enquiries into just transition for the Grangemouth Area and disabled employment gap and I call on Clear Baker, convener of the committee to make the announcement. Thank you. I welcome this opportunity to highlight two inquiries the Economy and Fair Work Committee is undertaking. Yesterday, members of the committee visited Enable Works and All-In Dundee. They are a consortium supporting people with disabilities into meaningful employment and supports employers to identify and provide job opportunities. Thank you also to Dovetail for the tool of their factory. On Monday, members of the committee will visit Glasgow to see the work being done by the National Autistic Society Scotland to support young people into employment. Those visits are part of our on-going work to look at Scotland's disability employment gap and what needs to be done to ensure that the Government meets its target to significantly reduce that gap. Our call for views is open for another couple of weeks. I also wish to highlight the economy and fair work committee inquiry into how we can support, incentivise and de-risk the transition to net zero in a way that will benefit businesses and people. The committee has agreed that the first focus of this work will be GrangeMouse. We know that transition to net zero is something that we must all turn our attention to and this work will consider the impact and opportunities for the GrangeMouse area. If any member would like to find out more about either of these pieces of work please do not hesitate to contact my clerks. Thank you. The next item of business is consideration of business motion 7735 in the name of George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau setting out a business programme. I call on George Adam to move the motion. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I'm moved. Thank you, Minister. I call on Stephen Kerr to speak to and move amendment 7735.1. Thank you, Presiding Officer. My amendment seeks to insert a ministerial statement next week on the disruption in our schools. As the teachers continue their industrial action, causing no end of disruption, the First Minister and the Cabinet Secretary continue to pursue inaction as a strategy. Teachers who do not want to strike have been left with no options. Parents are having to arrange childcare, pupils aren't in school and are suffering further disruption to their education on top of the disruption caused by two years of the pandemic. That is why, Presiding Officer, I'm on my feet yet again asking for a statement. It feels like every time we get the Cabinet Secretary to come to the chamber to answer questions, whether it be on educational attainment, the apprenticeship programme, the current strikes, she must be forced into it. This is not the attitude of a Cabinet Secretary who is on top of her brief. It's not the attitude of a Cabinet Secretary who is energised and engaged in her subject area. The attitude of the Scottish Government seems disengaged to the point of laziness. Michael Marra Labour is happy to support calls for a statement on the strikes that are debilitating families and schools across the country. Speaking to trade unions this afternoon, they said to me that effectively these negotiations have ground to a halt. Is that not a disgrace? It is a disgrace because, Presiding Officer, many in this chamber, alongside parents in pupils in schools across the country will have the deepest sympathy for striking teachers. I have sympathy with a profession that seems increasingly to be held in contempt by the Scottish Government. The Scottish Government is negotiating a pay-de deal. It is now over 300 days overdue and we see nothing of the First Minister in any of this. She was fast enough to rush in front of cameras as she has over the past few days, but she shows no animation whatsoever to settle this dispute with Scotland's teachers. Presiding Officer, I will give way to this Parliament. John Mason Would the member like to tell the chamber how much she thinks should be offered to the teachers? Is it 10%, 15% or more and where that money should come from? John Mason, if we could get the Cabinet Secretary to come to the chamber to bring us up to date with the negotiations and where things stand, perhaps we can discuss that sort of detail. Presiding Officer, this Parliament needs answers and I ask for the support today of colleagues to get a ministerial statement at the beginning of next week on this issue. We need to find out what the Cabinet Secretary is doing. Is she negotiating with the teachers and the councils? That we know as of 17 January she hasn't attended any of the negotiation sessions. I'll give way one more time. Willie Rennie, does Stephen Kerr find it surprising that the Cabinet Secretary is so reluctant to update the chamber about this once-in-a-lifetime industrial dispute when they spent the whole afternoon boasting about their industrial relations exercise? Stephen Kerr Willie Rennie is right. There are inherent contradictions in what we hear from the front bench and their attitude towards the teachers' union and this dispute. Has the First Minister met any of the teaching unions? According to correspondence, which I would share with the chamber, I have seen this week that she has been missing in action. Despite her personal intervention in the local government pay dispute, in the train drivers dispute, she has yet to set a hand on the teachers' strike. No wonder members of a branch of one of the teaching unions that the EIS has written to me saying, the reason we are writing to you, Mr Kerr, is because throughout this dispute we have yet to see or hear from the First Minister. We obviously want to get this dispute resolved and get back to teaching our young people, but we need the First Minister to enable us to do this. If you see her, could you please let her know that we are looking for her? That is from the EIS. Furthermore, the EIS says that it is disingenuous and unacceptable for the Scottish Government and COSLA to continue to misrepresent negotiations as positive and constructive. Are they positive? Are they constructive? We do not know whether they are positive or whether they are constructive, because all we get from the cabinet secretary are meaningless platitudes in the form of press statements while the strikes continue. The cabinet secretary must appear before Parliament. Her laid-back, hands-off approach has failed parents, pupils, communities and teachers. I urge members to support my amendment today so that we can scrutinise the cabinet secretary. Mr Kerr, could I ask you please to move your amendment? For the opportunity to speak again, I move my amendment. Thank you. I call on George Adam to respond on behalf of the parliamentary bureau. Thank you, Presiding Officer. You would be a bit shocked to know that we are actually talking parliamentary business here, because Mr Kerr and I went off on one, I think that the term is there, I told you to speak. Mr Kerr has said this on numerous occasions about asking requests for a statement for next week, but this is the first time that we have heard that request for a statement at the bureau, because, as Mr Kerr rightly knows, there is a process in which the Conservatives are very familiar with by which a statement can be requested. Mr Kerr understands this as he was the Tory business manager and he did it regularly in the past. However, that was not raised at the bureau at all. As always, Presiding Officer, we will consider any statement request raised by business managers through the official route. What we have here, Presiding Officer, is the Conservative Party indulging in opposition for opposition's sake. It would be helpful if we could move away from these political shenanigans and discuss requests for business at the bureau as per the norm. The first question is that amendment 7735.1 in the name of Stephen Kerr, which seeks to amend business motion 7735 in the name of George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau setting out a business programme, be agreed. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote. Now there will be a brief pause to allow members to access the bill on the digital voting system. Can I ask all those members who have voted previously today to refresh their device? Thank you.