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As Jim Wallace said in his foreword to the Scottish Executive paper "The Scottish Fire Service of The Future", which was published last year:"The fire service is one which has an enviable reputation for delivery."
The final figures show considerable increases, mainly as a result of the estimated costs of migration to the new complex. The future Finance Committee will have to bear that in mind when assessing future funding requirements.
However, after reviewing the process, we feel that there should be some way of accounting for that and of monitoring that what is, in effect, an agreed future change is delivered when the opportunity arises.
However, we are preparing a legacy paper for a future Equal Opportunities Committee. The clerks will take a note of the invitation and I am sure that a future committee will want to take it up.
I do not understand the background to paragraphs 26 to 28. By and large, the point is that parliamentarians who are speaking at an event as parliamentarians ought to declare any interests.