She said: "Football is our national game and it is now for the administrators to take forward the process of assessing the business and securing an outcome in the best interests of the club, its staff, supporters and the game of football as a whole in Scotland".
Parliament is now responsible for ensuring that the government takes forward the complex process of negotiating the UK's withdrawal from the European Union in a manner that achieves the best possible outcome for the UK as a whole.
"John Swinney (Scotland's deputy first minister) and the first minister have made it absolutely clear we are very committed to taking forward the Smith process".
We are legally required to go through an open-tender process and take forward the strongest bids to make sure we secure both the best possible service and value for money for the licence fee payer".
They have invested a great deal of time in this project and have provided valuable lessons on how to take forward this process in future.
He announced that Lord Smith of Kelvin, who led Glasgow's staging of the Commonwealth Games, would oversee the process to take forward the commitments, with new powers over tax, spending and welfare to be agreed by November, and draft legislation published by January.
"And I can announce today that Lord Smith of Kelvin - who so successfully led Glasgow's Commonwealth Games - has agreed to oversee the process to take forward the devolution commitments with powers over tax, spending and welfare all agreed by November and draft legislation published by January.
He said that Lord Smith of Kelvin, who led Glasgow's staging of the Commonwealth Games, would oversee the process to take forward the commitments, with new powers over tax, spending and welfare to be agreed by November, and draft legislation published by January.
Increase emphasis on fieldworkers' career development including developing regionally accredited training As well as taking forward existing learning about such processes, building a joint core curriculum offers potential to support fieldworkers' professional development through establishing regionally accredited training processes.
"We will keep the position under review as the disciplinary processes are taken forward over the coming weeks".
