While he welcomed some of the measures in the SNP motion, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the first minister had an “obsession” with independence.
He dismissed talk of a “fresh start” after almost 20 years of SNP rule.
Referencing Murrell’s guilty plea, Sarwar said SNP members had been “robbed” of their “hard-earned cash”.
Conservative leader Russell Findlay accused the government of ignoring important issues such as the NHS, education, high taxes, a rising social security bill, and the decline of the North Sea oil and gas industry.
He called on the SNP to “drop the damaging independence obsession”.
Findlay said that following Murrell’s guilty plea it was laughable that the first minister “reckons the SNP can be trusted to take full control of an independent Scotland and our nation’s finances”.
He accused Swinney of dismissing valid concerns about the SNP’s finances when they were raised in 2021, and went on to claim the former first minister Nicola Sturgeon “also told those with concerns to stay quiet”.
Earlier, Swinney said he was “not conscious” of having shut down concerns about party finances.
Alex Kerr, the party’s national secretary, also said that there had been a “huge overhaul” of financial oversight and said that he was “absolutely confident in it at the moment”.
