We catch up with Activist Gemma Clark in PART TWO to 'Use Your Voice' ! The new buffer zone bill has been passed and now in full force around Scotland. But why did it take so long for this bill to pass? And what does it mean now its in place? Concluding Episode Coming Soon.
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[00:00:08] from the last episode. Could you take us back on what we were talking about and what was happening,
[00:00:13] especially in Holyrood, the discussions and the fight against it? And nobody was going to
[00:00:21] say yes to these buffer zones. It had to go through a lot of process before it got to the
[00:00:26] present day. Yeah, it was a really long process. I remember when the campaign first started,
[00:00:30] the Women Minister at the time didn't... she did support it laterally but she wasn't very supportive
[00:00:36] in the beginning. There was a lot of talk about localised buffer zones, which some areas of
[00:00:41] England has. They're called public space protection orders. And they're okay but they're not brilliant
[00:00:46] because the local authority need to keep on reapplying for them. So there's a really long
[00:00:50] drawn out process to even get a local buffer zone and then you've only got it for a few years and
[00:00:55] you need to start going through it again. So that took quite a long time and then I think legislation,
[00:01:01] new legislation, I think just takes time anyway. So there's the Green MSP, Gillian Mackay, who took
[00:01:05] it on as a private members bill. So it was brand new legislation, there had to be a lot of public
[00:01:09] consultation and a lot of advice taken on it. The public consultation had to be processed,
[00:01:15] lots of groups had to be listened to and I think if there had been some kind of law that could have
[00:01:19] been amended that might have been quicker. Scotland's Women, Our Lives, Our Stories.
[00:01:25] Peace.