Once details have been made available by the royal household, does the Scottish Government intend to have conversations with local authorities to ensure that school pupils learn of the importance and significance of the coronation?

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions have taken place with the royal household regarding the coronation of His Majesty the King, in relation to events across the Highlands and Islands. (S6O-01742)

I know that the Scottish ministers find wind power statistics hard to understand, but here is a fact that should give them pause for thought. On 14 December last year, only 3.4 per cent of energy across the UK was generated by wind turbines. Surely a successful energy strategy needs dependable and flexible sources of power, so why will the Scottish Government not stop discounting the possibility of creating small modular nuclear reactors?

I am just finishing up, Presiding Officer.

If you push on with model 4, mums who are coming down from Caithness will not be able to get in, because the beds will all be full, and their ambulances will just be diverted to the next hospital. If you have spent two hours strapped on a gurney to get to Raigmore, the thought of spending another two and a half hours to get to Perth or to Aberdeen is just not acceptable.

As a representative of the Highlands, I am talking specifically about Highland mums, and Caithness mums in particular. You have been told that what you are proposing on model 4 is not safe and it is not acceptable. Although I would always encourage cross-border working, to do so when you are being told that it is not safe is not something that I could ever countenance or support you in doing.

I say at the outset that Douglas Ross’s words are wise words that come from the heart, not only that of his constituents but his own, because he has been through this situation and seen at first hand what effect it has. I feel some pity for the cabinet secretary, because it is not his problem. He has been left holding the baby, because it was his predecessor’s problem and her predecessor’s problem—that is where it all started. I know that the cabinet secretary has a lot to deal with. I also make the point that we are all after model 6 for Moray and that it has to be done as quickly as possible.

I am going to come at the issue from the other way round, from the Highland perspective, and talk about why I believe that model 4 is such a threat to the Highland service. First, we have to remember that Raigmore hospital recently had to take on all the duties of gynaecology and midwifery from Caithness, which put on a huge strain on it. About an extra 250 mothers a year come down from Caithness to Raigmore now. I think that there were only eight births in Caithness last year—not many; most of them are coming down to Raigmore, which is having to cope with that without a single extra bed.

I know that the cabinet secretary has been and looked at the facilities at Raigmore, but they are 25 or 30 years old and pretty rudimentary, if I could be so bold as to say that. In fact, if your baby is put into the special care unit there, you cannot even be taken down there on bed, if you have just delivered, because the corridors are too narrow. Also, nurses cannot work in the special care baby unit except to deliver the care, because there is no station for making notes and no ability for them to work around that.

Model 4 is being discussed, and I have looked at the plans. The £5 million that was promised by the cabinet secretary for model 4 to deliver the extra facilities will not deliver one extra bed—not one extra bed!—but Raigmore is being told that it may have to take on an extra 500 patients from Moray until model 6 is sorted out. That is a real issue, because while those 500 patients are coming to Raigmore and the facilities are being upgraded, whole services at Raigmore will have to relocate through the rest of the hospital, and there are not the facilities for that. I should not have to remind the cabinet secretary that 3,200 people are waiting for orthopaedic operations alone at Raigmore. Relocating the maternity unit to another ward in Raigmore means that operations will have to suffer, and that is just not good enough.

It also means that you will fracture the delivery of the service, because you will not be able to concentrate all the midwifery and other services that are provided in the unit in one ward. Raigmore does not have the facilities—for example, it has no way of extracting the anaesthetic gases that are used during delivery, which means not only that delivering mothers will not feel the full benefit of the gases but that the staff who are working around them will have to deal with it, and that is very dangerous for them in extended periods of treatment.

I see that the clock is ticking down, but I want to say this: cabinet secretary, you went up there. You met the clinicians, and they told you that model 4 is not safe. If somebody tells you that, you have to be really careful, because what I perceive is going to happen, cabinet secretary, is that if you push on with model 4—

I declare that I am part of a family farming partnership and that I own and manage land.

From the latest comments of the UK Climate Change Committee, it is clear that the lack of a coherent Scottish agriculture policy—something that falls totally within the remit of the Scottish Government—is of serious concern. The Government is clearly failing on its current peatland restoration targets, and, for more than 10 years, it has also failed on its tree-planting targets. If the Government is to meet its net zero targets, it will need to up its game. When will the cabinet secretary be able to meet the tree-planting targets?

The next section is on buildings, and the deputy convener, Fiona Hyslop, will begin the questions.

We will hear from Keith Bell, but then we will go to Emily Nurse, as she had her hand up, too.

I cannot help myself when I am on a roll. Keith Bell, I see that you nodded. Do you just want to agree?

Mark Ruskell has a supplementary question.