SNP MSP Maree Todd says the fact that there is a debate on this shows the challenges that are being faced.

Ms Todd says it is six months on from the vote and the EU citizens living here still have no clear idea about their future.

The SNP MSP says she feels ashamed at the xenophobic rhetoric she has heard following Brexit. 

She says those workers affected are not strangers, they are friends and family. 

Here is the Scottish Labour amendment. 

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Mr Sarwar says collaboration on research across the UK has been very beneficial.

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The Scottish Labour health spokesperson says he is sure a majority of MSPs would rather this debate was not necessary.

He says we must protect our health and social care sector.

Scottish Labour health spokesperson Anas Sarwar says it is important to note that even before Brexit there was a workforce crisis in the NHS.

Mr Sarwar says the Brexit has the capacity to make the crisis worse.

He urges the Brexit minister to continue to press the UK government to reassure EU citizens working in Scotland that they are safe. 

Here is the Scottish Conservative amendment. 

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A former member of Nicola Sturgeon's Cabinet has said that he voted for Brexit and that other SNP MSPs did the same.

Alex Neil said the Scottish government's drive to be "run by Brussels" risked alienating him and others in the SNP.

Mr Neil stepped down as social justice secretary in May.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon questioned whether Mr Neil was right about other SNP MSPs voting Leave.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, external, Alex Neil, who served as infrastructure secretary as well as health secretary, said that he decided 10 days before the 23 June poll to back Brexit.

Tory MSP Donald Cameron says EU nationals are 3% of the health and social care workforce, but he says Scotland has as many if not more than 3% of staff from other countries.

Mr Cameron says former health secretary Alex Neil voted to leave the EU.

He says to the SNP benches look around you and wonder how many of your colleagues are Brexiteers.

Mr Cameron says Scotland's staffing problems in the NHS are not due to Brexit, but due to a decade of NHS mismanagement.

Scottish Conservative MSP Donald Cameron says there have been 10 debates on Brexit so far and the impact is beginning to tell on Mike Russel's voice.

The Conservative MSP says the contribution of NHS workers from around the EU must be recognised.

He says employment laws already protect the rights of those from other countries and the UK government has signalled its intention to keep these laws in place. 

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Ms Robison says the Scottish government wants Scotland to continue collaborating on research with partners in the EU.

The health secretary says Scotland's citizens must retain their rights of access to state health care throughout the EEA.

She concludes that no matter where people come from their work in the NHS is welcomed. 

The health secretary says the EU has done much to protect and improve worker's rights.

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Ms Robison says this has helped deliver improved working conditions for staff and improved patient outcomes.

She says these social protections must not be removed.

The health secretary says UK patients benefit from medicines more quickly due to being part of the EU.

Health Secretary Shona Robison says it is important to continue to attract the top students to Scottish universities.

Ms Robison says this is made more difficult if the government cannot make guarantees on free movement or tuition fees.

The health secretary says it is unfortunate that guarantees cannot be made around EU students being able to remain and work following graduation. 

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Again, it depends on whether the UK government decides to introduce a work permit system of the kind that currently applies to non-EU citizens, limiting entry to skilled workers in professions where there are shortages. 

 Citizens' Advice has reminded people their rights have not changed yet and asked anyone to contact them if they think they have been discriminated against following the Leave vote.

Brexit Secretary David Davis has suggested EU migrants who come to the UK as Brexit nears may not be given the right to stay. 

He has said there might have to be a cut-off point if there was a "surge" in new arrival

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 A lot depends on the kind of deal the UK agrees with the EU. If it remains within the single market, it would almost certainly retain free movement rights, allowing UK citizens to work in the EU and vice versa. 

If the government opted to impose work permit restrictions, then other countries could reciprocate, meaning Britons would have to apply for visas to work.

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The UK government has declined to give a firm guarantee about the status of EU nationals currently living in the UK, saying this is not possible without a reciprocal pledge from other EU members about the millions of British nationals living on the continent.

EU nationals with a right to permanent residence, which is granted after they have lived in the UK for five years, will be be able to stay, the chief civil servant at the Home Office has said. The rights of other EU nationals would be subject to negotiations on Brexit and the "will of Parliament," he added.

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Ms Robison says highlights the valuable contribution that health and care staff from across the EU, and beyond, make to Scotland.

The health secretary says around 1 in 20 NHS doctors in Scotland come from other parts of the EU.

She deplores the potential threat that Brexit poses to social and employment protection, which are vital to NHS staff.

She calls for the UK government to stop using NHS staff from the EU as bargaining chips.

Health Secretary Shona Robison says every area of Scotland voted to remain in the EU.

Ms Robison says the Scottish government is firmly committed to remaining in the single market including freedom of movement.

The health secretary praises the contribution citizens from other parts of the EEA give to Scotland.

She pays tribute to all those who work in the NHS regardless of nationality.

To those from elsewhere in Europe she says "we want you here and value your contribution".

Here's the Scottish government motion. 

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Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly called on the UK government to guarantee EU nationals living in the UK can remain after Brexit.

Scotland's first minister made such a plea as she hosted a question and answer session with hundreds of EU nationals in August

Many were concerned about whether they would have the right to live and work in Scotland when the UK leaves the EU. 

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Ms Sturgeon said it was "disgraceful" that the UK had not guaranteed the right of EU nationals to remain.

And while she believed it was "unthinkable" people from EU countries would be asked to leave, she called on Prime Minister Theresa May to "do the humane thing" by ending the uncertainty facing three million people, including about 173,000 in Scotland.

But Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell said the prime minister has made it clear that she wants EU nationals who are in the UK to stay and she will do everything she can to make that happen.