Highlands & Islands MSP Emma Roddick has praised the messaging at this year’s Royal Highland Show, saying it is heartening to hear agricultural organisations emphasise the importance of speaking out about mental health and wellbeing. The annual agricultural show, which celebrated its 200th anniversary last year, brings together the best of Scotland’s food, drink, farming [...]

Local MSP Emma Roddick has welcomed plans to protect the right to healthcare access, available at the point of need, by including the NHS in an independent Scotland’s written constitution. The plans to create a constitution that provides recognition of the NHS in Scotland were included in the fourth Building A New Scotland paper from [...]

Highlands & Islands SNP MSP, Emma Roddick, has welcomed the signing of a landmark agreement between local and national government, saying it demonstrates the Scottish Government’s commitment to empowering local authorities and providing high-quality public services in Orkney. The Verity House Agreement, which was signed by First Minister Humza Yousaf and COSLA President Shona Morrison, [...]

SNP MSP Emma Roddick has welcomed the publication of a new paper by the Scottish Government that outlines the opportunities of a written constitution for an independent Scotland. The paper is the fourth in the Scottish Government's Building a New Scotland, which aims to inform the Scottish independence debate. Previous papers have compared other similar-sized [...]

Highlands & Islands MSP Emma Roddick today (Friday 16th June) paid a visit to the Outward Bound Trust’s outdoor education centre on the shores of Loch Eil in Lochaber. The centre, which prides itself on providing visiting groups of young people with a unique outdoor learning experience, offers a wide range of activities such as [...]

Highlands & Islands MSP Emma Roddick attended the official opening of the NHS National Treatment Centre for the Highlands yesterday (Monday 12th June). The centre, which has been funded by the Scottish Government, as part of a Scotland-wide network of healthcare facilities, was officially opened by First Minister Humza Yousaf at a ceremony this morning. [...]

Highlands & Islands MSP Emma Roddick has said that the UK Government has undermined devolution by interfering with Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme - delaying the scheme’s launch. Reacting to the news that the scheme will now launch no earlier than 2025, rather than March next year as planned, Ms Roddick said that the UK Government’s [...]

Celebrations were in order in Glasgow on Saturday evening as Proud Scotland hosted its annual awards ceremony. Highlands & Islands MSP Emma Roddick was up for the Leadership Award, which recognises “an individual, or group, that has been in a leadership capacity to directly impact the LGBTQI+ community” alongside five other nominees, including her colleague [...]

Highlands & Islands MSP Emma Roddick has been helping out at one of Inverness’s community fridges this Volunteers’ Week. The local SNP representative spent an evening picking up unsold food items from a local Nisa store and delivering them to the Good-NESS Project community fridge. Set up in early 2021, the Good-NESS Project community fridge, [...]