Green MSP Mark Ruskell raises the issue of the Park of Keir tennis and golf project park near Dunblane which was approved last week.

He asks whether the government has learnt nothing from its dealings with Donald Trump over his golf course in Aberdeenshire.

Ms Sturgeon says she hopes Mr Ruskell was not trying to put Judy Murray into the same category as Donald Trump.

The first minister says minister have yet to finally grant planning permission on this.

Mr Harvie says the Scottish government has a responsibility to act.

He calls for consistency on discretionary housing payments across councils.

He says: "The shortfall will lead to more debt arrears, more evictions, more hunger and more hardship".

Ms Sturgeon says she is happy to look at the Croydon example Patrick Harvie raised, but she says she doubts any part of the UK is doing more than Scotland to mitigate the welfare cuts.

The first minister says she agrees on the issue of the need for consistency of the delivery of family health checks.

She says the government will continue to do everything it can to mitigate the Tories' "heartless cuts".

Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie says there is much more that needs to be done to reduce poverty in Scotland.

Mr Harvie cites the impact of the benefit cap and says it targets families with children who are already poor and makes them poor.

He says discretionary housing payments are falling well short of what is required.

The first minister says she is happy to look into this.

Ms Sturgeon says the payments have been used to make sure no-one has had to pay the bedroom tax in Scotland.

She says the UN described the UK government's approach to disabled people as a human catastrophe.

A mother who has been fighting for 42 years to find out what happened to her dead baby's remains has discovered his coffin was buried with no body in it.

Lydia Reid was granted a court order for an exhumation to be carried out at the burial plot in Edinburgh last week but no human remains were found.

The exhumation was conducted by respected forensic anthropologist Prof Dame Sue Black.

Her report concluded that the coffin was buried without human remains.

Ms Reid said the news was "devastating".

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Tory MSP Gordon Lindhurst raise the issue of Lydia Reid in Edinburgh, whose son's coffin was buried with no body in it.

Ms Sturgeon gives her sympathies to Lydia Reid and her family and says the government will meet with her.

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A man has appeared in court charged with injuring a 10-year-old boy by knocking him over on a motorbike.

The child suffered serious injuries in the incident on Ferry Road in Edinburgh on 19 August.

Conor Whalen faces 12 charges including causing serious injury by dangerous driving, failing to stop and report a collision and theft of a motorbike.

The 20-year-old, from Edinburgh, made no plea or declaration during the private hearing.

He was committed for further examination at the hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court and remanded in custody.

Mr Whalen is expected to appear in court again at a later date.

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SNP MSP Ben Macpherson says a ten-year-old boy was run over by a motorcycle on the 10th of August in Edinburgh.

Mr Macpherson asks what action the Scottish government is taking to tackle joyriding on motorcycles.

The first minister says this was a terrible tragedy and offers her condolences.

Ms Sturgeon says local partnership is key to confronting the issues.

She says the government will continue to engage to play its part.

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More than 250,000 children in Scotland have no access to school-based counselling services, a BBC investigation has discovered.

It found that 14 local authorities had no on-site counsellors and provision by other councils was irregular.

The data revealed school counsellors dealt with thousands of cases including substance abuse, self-harm and depression in the past year.

A government review into school counselling services is now under way.

Unlike Scotland, counselling services were guaranteed in all secondary schools in Northern Ireland and Wales, external a decade ago.

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The first minister says Alex Rowley is a very fair and constructive politician, but she says he is being a tad unfair in his characterisation of what the government is doing.

Ms Sturgeon points to the Pupil Equity Fund and the Mental Health Strategy.

She says the CAMHS workforce is being increased.

Ms Sturgeon says: "The time is right now to look at how we fund our public services in the longer term."

Mr Rowley says he is aware the programme for government commits to look at the issue, but says "action speaks louder than words".

He says more than 9,000 young people have waited to long for treatment and this cannot be allowed to continue.

Mr Rowley says too many children are being let down.

The Scottish Labour interim leader says his party published proposals to address this last year.

He says there needs to be more investment in mental health services for children.

Mr Rowley asks if these proposals were looked at.

Ms Sturgeon says they were considered for the Mental Health Strategy.

She says the government has committed to a review of CAMHS.

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Scottish Labour interim leader Alex Rowley says his party will very much welcome the debate on taxation.

Mr Rowley says the latest NHS statistics published on Tuesday shows there are not enough doctors, nurses and midwives.

He also highlights the number of children waiting for mental health treatment.

Ms Sturgeon welcomes Alex Rowley to his role as interim leader of Scottish Labour.

The first minister says there are almost 12,000 more people working in the NHS today than when the NHS took office.

She says the health budget is £3bn higher than when the SNP came to office.