Press Release
22nd January 2003
McNeil Dismisses Quinan
MSP for Greenock & Inverclyde,
Duncan McNeil, has dismissed comments made yesterday by the
Nationalist MSP, Lloyd Quinan.
"Lloyd Quinan issuing press releases to the Greenock Telegraph?" he asked. "Anyone would think there’s an election on the way."
He continued:
"I will take no lectures on industry or employment from the party which voted against the nationalisation of shipbuilding, helped to bring down the last Labour government and gave us 18 years of the Tories’ industrial vandalism which cost our community dear.
"For the record, although the yard is not in my constituency, on 13th December I joined, not for the first time, the local MP and MSP at a meeting with Ferguson’s management, at which we discussed a range of issues facing the yard. Chief among these was the possibility of bringing forward the planned programme for the Fisheries Protection Fleet and the CalMac tendering process.
"I agreed to support my colleagues in their efforts on behalf of the yard and, 3 days later, was sitting down with Deputy Transport Minister, Lewis Macdonald, making the case for Ferguson’s. I followed this up with Written Questions to the Minister responsible for the Fisheries Protection Fleet, Ross Finnie, on 23rd December, answers to which I received on 13th January. And I will, of course, continue to work with the constituency MSP and MP on this issue.
"I note that Mr Quinan neglects to
inform us exactly what he has done to support the yard in
recent months and years. After all, it is in his electoral
region."
ENDS
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