That brings an end to a lively First Minister's Questions. If you're just joining us here's what you missed:

• Former Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross was ejected from the chamber for calling out while the first minister was answering a question
• Ross later questioned the neutrality of the Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone, who was a Green MSP before taking on the job of speaker
• Earlier Russell Findlay attacked proposals from the Climate Change Committee, which it said are necessary in order for Scotland to meet the target of net-zero by 2045
• The Scottish Tory leader picked out certain proposals as "unrealistic" and "utter madness"
• The first minister hit back saying his government had to tackle climate change and it would reach its 2045 target
• Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar was on familiar ground as he focused on the "human cost" of NHS waiting lists, with 13,000 people having to wait over two years
• Swinney apologised to anyone who is on a waiting list and said the government was committed to tackling “long waits”
• Patrick Harvie chose to attack the decision to approve a resort by Flamingo Land on the shores of Loch Lomond, following a protest outside Holyrood this morning
• The Scottish Greens co-leader said it was the most unpopular development in the "history of the Scottish planning system"
• Swinney explained the reporter would consider the appeal on the planning merits of the case and he highlighted 49 planning conditions that have been introduced

That's all from the live page team today. The editor was Mary McCool. Megan Bonar and Craig Hutchison were the writers.

Lib Dem MSP Willie Rennie asks about the lack of progress on financial recovery for the University of Dundee, which is cutting hundreds of jobs due to a £35m deficit.

“This has been agonising for university staff, a cloud has been hanging over them since November,” he said.

The first minister says the university is an autonomous institution, and no request from the Scottish Funding Council has been received.

Michael Marra MSP also asks about the issue, he asks Swinney to commit to a voluntary severance scheme being put in place by next week.

Swinney replies that he cannot commit to that because he would be breaking the law by telling an independent institution how to go about business.

He does however give his “absolute commitment to securing the future of the university of Dundee.”

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Monica Lennon is the next MSP to enter the fray and she asks what the Scottish government is doing to maintain its policy aim of keeping pace with the EU on environmental protection.

Swinney replies his government intends to remain aligned with the EU when it is possible to do so.

The Labour MSP refers to her Ecocide (Scotland) Bill which contains proposals for a new law which could see the bosses of major polluters jailed for up to 20 years.

"This is Scotland's time to act," adds Lennon who asks if the FM agrees with her bill's aims.

John Swinney compliments Monica Lennon for her bill and he says the government will consider it and will have further dialogue with the Labour MSP.

Kevin Keane
BBC Scotland environment correspondent

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A word on the issue the Tories raised at the beginning of FMQs - climate change.

Independent experts have proposed a new set of targets to tackle climate change in Scotland over the next 20 years.

Annual targets were abandoned by the Scottish government last year after repeatedly being missed – but ministers retained the pledge to reach net zero by 2045.

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) says that to meet that goal, emissions need to fall by an average of 57% over the next five years and by 69% to 2035, when compared with 1990 levels.

The Scottish government says it will consider the report's recommendations carefully but is expected to adopt the targets in the coming weeks.

The government had set its original climate change targets in 2019 – which included reducing emissions by 75% by 2030.

Read more here.

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

Football referee Douglas Ross is no stranger to a red card.

But he is arguing that he should have been shown a yellow before he was ordered out of the Holyrood chamber today.

Mr Ross told BBC Scotland he struggled to accept that the presiding officer was acting neutrally, and that she allowed SNP and Green MSPs to behave in a way that she did not extend to Conservative members.

He said he had “serious questions about the conduct of the presiding officer”, and that he would be seeking to speak with Alison Johnstone and her officials about the decision.

It's a rowdy one today.

Douglas Ross’ Tory colleague Douglas Lumsden is also given a slap on the wrist for shouting from his seat during a question from the SNP's Christine Grahame.

“Where you trying to attract attention?” the speaker asks as she tells him to desist.

Grahame follows up on the play parks issue, saying after the Covid pandemic "when children were isolated for so long", plans for renewals is "an excellent project that liberates them".

Swinney says his colleague makes an "incredibly powerful point".

Scottish Tory MSP Stephen Kerr says the Scottish government has committed £60m to renew every play park in Scotland, but there are reports that less than half of the funding has been spent.

The first minister highlights £35m allocated to local government since September 2021.

He argues the £60m commitment will be met by his government.

"That sounds like another Swinney broken promise to me," retorts Kerr.

The chamber becomes raucous again as Kerr argues that the SNP government adopts gimmicks and fails to deliver.

"I think Stephen Kerr needs to go to a play park to get rid of some of his excess energy," jokes the first minister to some laughter from his backbenches.

"He seems just a little bit too excited for words."

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

I think Douglas Ross might be the first MSP to be kicked out of the chamber by Alison Johnstone.

But it’s not unheard of – his Tory colleague Oliver Mundell was ordered out by Ken Macintosh in 2020 for claiming Nicola Sturgeon had lied to parliament over the Salmond inquiry.

Back in 2015, Labour’s James Kelly was booted out by Tricia Marwick in a classic row about a point of order which she contended wasn’t a point of order relating to the UK Trade Union Bill.

Ms Johnstone has a reputation as a fairly mild-mannered presiding officer.

But she has clashed quite frequently with Mr Ross in particular in recent weeks, with the former Tory leader always keen to pick away at the government’s record – and the chances MSPs have to interrogate it in parliament.

The former Scottish Conservative leader is asked twice by Alison Johnstone to leave the chamber - without warning - after talking over the first minister.

As the appeal remains live he can't comment on the Flamingo Land proposal, replies Swinney, and he adds it is subject to 49 planning conditions.

The first minister explains the reporter is required to make his decision on the planning merits of the case.

Harvie argues the first minister is not even attempting to acknowledge the anger about this "unnecessary, unwanted, destructive" development

The Scottish Greens co-leader asks if Swinney learned nothing from his "mistake" over Trump's golf course development.

Swinney insists he values and cherishes the natural environment of Scotland.

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It's now the turn of Patrick Harvie to grill the first minister and he chooses to ask about protest outside parliament today against the Scottish government's intention to approve a resort by Flamingo Land on the shores of Loch Lomond.

The Scottish Greens co-leader says the proposals have been opposed by 155,000 people.

"It's the most unpopular development in the history of the Scottish planning system," he says.

He argues there is still a chance to save Loch Lomond and he calls on the first minister to listen to the objections and recall this decision.

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

This was a paint-by-numbers standard of the Anas Sarwar vs John Swinney FMQs exchange.

Mr Sarwar loves to bring up NHS waiting times because he sees it as a great example of the government’s handling of public services.

He also frequently has a case study to hand of a patient who feels let down, to confront the first minister with a real voter.

Mr Swinney meanwhile rarely misses an opportunity to criticise the record of the UK government, now run by Labour.

He managed to link that back to health services by saying that any move to restrict immigration would affect the NHS’s ability to attract international workers.

To be honest they have this same exchange most weeks, and will continue to right up to polling day next May.

Sarwar accuses the first minister of having no plan to fix Scotland’s NHS.

Swinney responds by saying the government has a plan in place to focus on expanding capacity.

"We are working to make sure we have the staff and the resources in place to address this issue," he says.

He adds that the UK's government's immigration policy will make tackling waiting times "ever more difficult".

Swinney says: "The immigration policies will be damaging to our national health service and we do not want anything to do with them."

Figures released this week showed that the number of patients waiting more than two years for to see an NHS specialist in Scotland has grown in the past year.

Public Health Scotland said the waiting list for those referred to an outpatient clinic more than two years ago was at the highest level it had ever recorded, with the number more than tripling to 5,262.

Government targets to provide treatment within 12 weeks were also still not being met for thousands of patients, with 24% of waits recorded going on for more than a year, the report found.

More on this story here.

“Week after week, John Swinney comes to this chamber and apologies. People don’t want to hear sorry, they want treatment,” Sarwar says.

He says thousands are waiting over two years for orthopaedic, ENT and neurosurgery treatment.

Swinney says the government has made the largest investment in the NHS that has ever been made and by March had created over 100,000 additional appointments.

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Anas Sarwar is next up - he asks the first minister about new health statistics showing a growing number of people on NHS waiting lists.

Sarwar says in total there are 860,925 people are on an NHS waiting list in Scotland, with over 13,000 people waiting over two years.

“There is a human cost”, he says as he highlights the case of a woman who has waited over 100 weeks for surgery for an ovarian cyst.

The first minister apologies to anyone who is on a waiting list and say the government is committed to tackling “long waits”.

Swinney wraps up on Russel Findlay's questioning saying Brexit has caused incalculable damage to agriculture.

He says the 2045 target is the Scottish Parliament's, not the SNP's.

Swinney accuses the Conservatives of "cheap political opportunity".

Philip Sim
BBC Scotland political correspondent

Russell Findlay ended up being eclipsed by his predecessor as Tory leader.

Douglas Ross has persistently clashed with the presiding officer over recent weeks, and it seemed like Alison Johnstone had zero patience for his heckling today, ordering him out of the chamber without so much as a warning.

Mr Findlay had been underlining the lack of a big story this week by leading off on a report published last Wednesday.

He picked out various proposals from the climate change committee’s report on carbon budgets, describing various things which the government has not committed to as “utter madness”.

But ultimately the government hasn’t actually said what it is going to do, so it was hard for him to pin any particular policy on the first minister.

And John Swinney seemed determined not to rise to the bait.

His only real political barb was one about Brexit - which was what prompted Douglas Ross to blow his top.

Ultimately that is going to be a far more memorable moment than anything prompted by Mr Findlay’s questions.

Prior to Ross' exit from the chamber, Russell Findlay says the number of cattle would need to fall by two million, around 25%, to achieve climate targets.

The Scottish Tory leader says Scots would have to eat one third less meat.

"This is utter madness, it's an act of national self-harm."

John Swinney hits back reiterating his government will consider the proposals in the report.

The Scottish Tory leader continues to look at those proposals, turning to heat pumps saying to meet the target would require 70% of homes to have one.

"That proposal is simply not realistic," adds Findlay, who then calls on the first minister to reject it.

Swinney insists agriculture is always in his priorities and he highlights the impact of Brexit.

This leads to Douglas Ross's ejection.

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There is a brief pause in proceedings as former Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is kicked out of the chamber.

The speaker asks him to leave the chamber and tells him not to return for the rest of the day after raising his voice over the first minister.