can i call patrick harvie _ thank you. can i call patrick harvie. . ., thank you.know the answer to the question. multiple instances of msps on that committee prejudging the evidence and announcing their motivations to the world, and then the disgraceful betrayal of trust and complainers over the last weekend. what should have been a serious inquiry has descended into farce. i believe this is the deliberate choice of those who have nothing to offer the people of scotland. they looked at the devolved institutions and saw a high level of public trust in them and could not bear it. they set about trying to drag everything down to their level. they will fail. as a direct result of their actions, the women who complained about sexual harassment in the first place, had to put out a statement via rape crisis scotland that complained about the violation of their trust. here we are, on the one hand we have an independent report by someone with enough professionalism not to go hocking quotes to the press in advance. it clears the first minister of any breach of the ministeri

thank you. j patrick harvie is co—convenor of the scottish green party hejoins me now.atter that deserves to be taken seriously. sexual harassment allegations in the mishandling within government which the government has acknowledged it, it mishandled those allegations and we need to take that issue seriously and look at why that happened and how to ensure that it could never happen again and rebuild trust with in the scottish public sector and the scottish government to ensure that such allegations can be made and taken seriously. what we have seen over the last few weeks and months is this whole issue being turned into a piece of third—rate political theatre and now the conservatives have realised they do not get to write the last act. but we have now is an independent report that since the first minister has not broken the ministerial code we have a committee report being published tomorrow by committee which is already destroyed its own credibility by prejudging the evidence, by leaking persistently throughout this entire process just this weekend leaking the eviden