McAllan, the Net Zero Secretary, said Matheson trying to get the taxpayer to foot the £11,000 bill was a 'political bubble issue'.
Mairi McAllan said the disgraced former health secretary - who initially tried to get the taxpayer to foot the bill for an £11,000 data roaming charge racked up on his official iPad - was a "political bubble issue".Falkirk West MSP Matheson has been banned from Holyrood for 27 days and has had 54 days docked from his salary after MSPs voted to sanction him on Wednesday.
"The people of Scotland are concerned about issues affecting the money in their pocket, the public services that they seek to use and their desire to get on in life. "The man has been handed down the most severe sanction in the history of the devolution era, harsher than issues of sexual misconduct in the past."I think he now needs to be allowed to take the sanction that has been handed and we need to forget about this issue."
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