I find this afternoon's debate incredibly difficult and uncomfortable. There's much that I would like to say, but I think it would be wise not to say it at this time. In two days' time, we're going to be burying our colleague and friend, and I think there's something unseemly about having this nature of debate while that still hasn't happened. I find it reprehensible the way that people have used this tragedy to settle scores from their time in Government. I think the First Minister, to his credit, has set up two separate independent processes, which is unprecedented. Those need to be given time to draw their conclusions. I note what has been said about then a parliamentary process taking place and I think that that time is the right time—when there's been reflection and evidence and a passage of time—to have that debate.

I have no difficulty with the Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister meeting once those reports are published and for the proper process of scrutiny to take place, but today is not that day.

I was struck two weeks ago when we met to pay tribute to Carl Sargeant by the decency shown in this Chamber, and I'm disappointed by the tone that has been struck this afternoon. I was particularly disgusted by the comments of the leader of the opposition from a sedentary position to my colleague Lynne Neagle that she'd taken the shilling—