Ms Davidson says the NFU Scotland president has said the Scottish government's actions have not lived up to the promises and NFU Scotland have lost trust in the system.

The Scottish Conservative leader says the first minister has lost the trust of rural Scotland.

Ms Sturgeon hits back saying the government is concentrating on making sure farmers get payments as quickly as possible. 

Pressure has been mounting on the Scottish government to confirm when EU support payments will be delivered to farmers.

NFU Scotland urged a Scottish parliamentary committee to hold an extraordinary session on the issue last October.

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The union said it did not believe payouts under the new basic payment scheme, external would be delivered in the normal December window.

The Scottish government had originally said it continued "to work flat out" towards starting payments by the end of 2015.

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson raises the issue of EU CAP farm payments, the "botched IT system" and delayed payments.

Ms Sturgeon says her team is working to get payments to farmers as quickly as possible.

She says it is true that processing payments has taken longer due to complexity of CAP reform.

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The first minister asks how much the rebate proposed by Labour will cost to administer, and is told of by the presiding officer for asking the opposition questions.

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Ms Dugdale says the Labour plan is for some of us to pay a bit more and the wealthiest to pay a lot more to protect the education system.

Invest or cut schools? Why does the first minister choose cuts, she asks.

The first minister says Labour's plan will shift the burden of austerity onto the shoulders of low paid workers.

Ms Sturgeon criticises the lack of detail about the rebate in Labour's income tax rise plan.

She says the plan is not "fair and not progressive".

Ms Dugdale says details organisations that say Labour's proposals are fair and workable. 

 The presiding officer says she has already warned about heckling in the chamber and says she has heard an unparliamentary word and will review the situation.  

Ms Dugdale says the first minister has the chance to use Holyrood's powers to stop the cuts.

The first minister responds by criticising Labour's policy of raising the basic rate of income tax for everyone earning £11,000 or more.

Labour MSPs react to this, shouting across the chamber.

Ms Sturgeon says there is a debate to be had in this country about tax, but Labour's policy is "written on the back of a fag packet".

"The lack of detail is frankly embarrassing," she adds.

MSPs have rejected plans for income tax rates to increase by 1p in Scotland from April of this year.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats had said the move would raise £500m to safeguard education and other public services.

But Finance Secretary John Swinney said increasing income tax would punish Scotland's lowest-paid workers.

He has vowed to keep income tax rates the same as the rest of the UK for the time being.

Ms Dugdale asks when the first minister will stop pretending her budget will not harm Scotland's children.

The first minister says the local government settlement for local authorities has faced a 2% reduction in revenue spending, offset by social care funding.

She says that has allowed the continuation of the council tax freeze, protection of teacher numbers and paying care workers the living wage. 

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All 32 local authorities in Scotland have accepted the Scottish government's funding deal worth £10.3bn.

Finance Secretary John Swinney welcomed the settlement which will mean the council tax freeze continuing for a ninth year.

However, many authorities said they had accepted only reluctantly.

Local government body Cosla claimed that in order to make the deal work councils would need to cut services and axe jobs.

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale says Labour will protect education spending for the duration of the next parliament, but will the first minister do the same?

The first minister says the SNP will shortly detail its plans for education. 

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Jeremey Hunt will shortly announce that a new contract will be imposed on junior doctors.

This will not happen in Scotland she says.. 

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale gets first minister's questions underway in the traditional fashion.

Transport Minister Derek Mackay says a temporary timetable has been adapted to minimise the impact on commuters. 

The main tunnel serving Scotland's third busiest rail station is to close for 20 weeks, causing major disruption. 

ScotRail said the Glasgow Queen Street Station tunnel would be closed from 20 March until 8 August. 

Services will divert to low-level platforms or Glasgow Central, bringing timetable changes and in some cases, longer journey times. 

The work is part of a £60m upgrade project that will allow faster and longer trains to use the station.