Thread by @theSNP

First Minister @NicolaSturgeon at #FMQs: "There is work to be done, and that is why we are making the investment, supporting the recruitment of additional paramedics, technicians, to bring these waiting times down again."

NS: "Perhaps even more importantly, because some of the pressure on the ambulance service comes from pressures elsewhere, which is why the NHS Recovery Plan, and the investment that supports it, is so important." #FMQs

NS: "The ambulance service is receiving additional money. We increased investment by more than £10m last year. Additional investment of £20m is being invested this year. And the £1bn Recovery Plan funding will include support for the ambulance service." #FMQs

NS: "Vaccine passports can provide an added layer of protection, so if you have, for example, a nightclub where people come together and there is the potential for super-spreader events..." #FMQs

NS: "..then if you make sure that, in addition to all of these other protections, everybody in that nightclub has been fully vaccinated, what you do is, you don't eradicate the risk of transmission but you reduce the risk and significantly reduce the risk of illness." #FMQs

NS: "Is it a complete solution? No. But in the face of this really challenging pandemic, there is no one single solution. We've got to take all the ways we can to, as proportionately as possible, keep the country as safe as possible." #FMQs

NS: "That's the responsible way in which this government is going to continue to act. I think some of what we've heard from the opposition suggests that a bit more genuine grown-up politics on this issue would go a long way." #FMQs

NS: "I did make a comment about Anas Sarwar's position, not anybody else's - because I do think, to have said categorically, as he did at the weekend, no matter what, he was going to vote against something..." #FMQs

NS: "Actually, frankly, that's opposition for opposition's sake, and I think it reflects rather poorly on him. But that's my opinion, people can agree or disagree on that." #FMQs

NS: "Anas Sarwar appears to say that he thinks negative test results should be used in place of proof of vaccine. Now, we do suggest to people that they test themselves regularly, and LFD testing is a really important part of our response..." #FMQs

NS: "..but one of the constraints, which means it doesn't make sense to put too much reliance on them for the kind of thing we're talking about right now, is that they are self-reported tests." #FMQs

NS: "This is a point that I heard the UK Vaccines Minister make yesterday in the House of Commons. So we've got to be careful that we don't introduce false security around a system like that." #FMQs

NS: "Vaccination reduces your risk of getting the virus. So if you're saying to somebody, do you want to be in a nightclub where some people are unvaccinated, or do you want to be in a nightclub where everybody's vaccinated?" #FMQs

NS: "In the latter, your risk of getting the virus is going to be significantly lower than in the former.

Is it eradicated? No. But no single measure will eradicate risk." #FMQs

NS: "So this is about having a basket of measures. It's about testing, it's about making sure that people isolate when they're required to, but it's also about making sure that we use vaccine to its fullest effect." #FMQs

NS: "Drive up the rates of vaccine and then make sure that we're using the protection of vaccination as effectively as possible. So this is part of a solution." #FMQs

NS: "We are making immediate investment of £120m into mental health, with a particular focus on prevention and early intervention.

We're already funding health boards to improve community child and adolescent mental health services." #FMQs

NS: "Expansion of community services from age 18 to 25, and also the funding I announced will enable the clearing of historic waiting lists, which have been further exacerbated by the experience of Covid." #FMQs

NS: "So the funding that we will make available is specifically targeted to dealing with the issue that Jamie Greene raises." #FMQs

NS: "I don't think we CAN argue about the impact of UK Government austerity on services the length and breadth of Scotland. It has been utterly devastating." #FMQs

NS: "And the problem is, unless we do something about it, to get ourselves out of the grip of Tory Government after Tory Government, people across Scotland are going to suffer more of it." #FMQs

NS: "Just this week, we've seen a National Insurance increase that will punish the lowest-paid in our society. We all want to see extra money for public services, but raising that money in a way that punishes the poor is the bit, frankly, we don't agree with." #FMQs

NS: "We're also about to see, from this UK Government, the biggest overnight cut to social security since the 1930s, as they take away the £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit." #FMQs

NS: "This may be something that Alex Rowley and I just have to disagree on, and he can explain it to his own constituents, but I do think it's right that people in Scotland get the opportunity to choose a different future." #FMQs

NS: "To choose a better future, where we take control over social security, and how we raise our funds, into this Parliament, so we don't have to stand here and, to use his phrase, argue about the impact of another government on people the length and breadth of Scotland." #FMQs