Dalmuir wedge should get maximum protection
Clydebank MSP Des McNulty has spoken out against the re-designation of land between Dalmuir Park and the Boulevard, which includes the golf course, as open space as opposed to green space. He shares the concern expressed by organisations like Greenbelt and the Clydebank Seniors Forum that re-designation would remove protection which prevents the land being [...]
Video: Literacy Commission Debate
Watch Des's opening speech in the Literacy Commission Debate, where he called on the First Minister to make literacy Scotland’s number one educational priority and to ensure every child in Scotland leaves primary school able to read, write and count.
Tackling Scotland’s drink culture
Those responsible for the overwhelming majority of the violence and anti-social behaviour linked to alcohol should be the government's target, people whose actions are in many cases fuelled by drinking the likes of Buckfast and cheap cider and end up with themselves or others having to be taken to casualty units. The measures the government should be prioritising are those tackling the behaviour of hazardous drinkers rather than someone wanting to buy a reasonably priced bottle of wine to enjoy with their dinner.
School visits: Des faces his hardest critics!
Des was very pleased to meet with both Clober and Craigdhu Primary school recently.
Des often gets the opportunity to visit schools in his Constituency or to meet with schools that are visiting the Scottish Parliament. This gives pupils the chance to ask Des questions about local issues that are important to them, and to quiz Des on what he is [...]
Protective fencing is needed to prevent suicides on the Erskine Bridge
Residents in Old Kilpatrick are sadly familiar with helicopters flying over the village after suicide attempts. In the past, there were cases where people jumped off the bridge and landed in resident’s gardens. The installation of higher fencing on the northern approaches to the bridge in the early 1990s prevented further incidents of that kind [...]
Video: Scotland’s Road Safety Framework
Des McNulty MSP gives Labour's opening and closing speeches discussing Scotland's Road Safety Framework . Des raises the issue that the Government needs to do much more to support cyclists and pedestrians, and especially those with impaired vision, whose concerns are not given enough prominence in the road safety framework.
No excuses, carry a knife and go to jail
Clydebank and Milngavie MSP Des McNulty is backing calls for a mandatory prison sentence for people caught carrying and using knives.
Knife crime is responsible for half of all murders in Scotland, including 39 in the Strathclyde Police region last year.
But the latest figures show that two out of three knife criminals dodge prison when [...]
Wasted talent: lack of jobs for newly qualified teachers
Clydebank and Milngavie MSP Des McNulty has voiced his concern over the increasing number of out of work teachers and the subsequent waste of talent.
Figures published in the Times Educational Supplement show that across Scotland 1 in 7 probationer teachers have managed to find fulltime employment. Locally the situation is even worse. In East Dunbartonshire [...]
Clydebank mustn’t lose out on funding for Fastlink
If funding becomes available to take forward the Fastlink project, it is vital that Clydebank is connected via the Golden Jubilee, the waterfront area and Clydebank College with Glasgow City Centre.
Fairer Compensation for Workplace Accidents
Des McNulty MSP is backing moves by his colleague Bill Butler MSP to bring in new legislation that will ensure fairer and quicker compensation for victims of workplace accidents and diseases contracted at work.
