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No.I am not a financial pundit, so I will focus on one point—the issue of efficient government, about which the convener of the Finance Committee spoke, and best value in goods and services.
There is nothing that says to a decision maker, "You must make the decision that is best for the environment," because that might not be best from an economic or social point of view.
The guidance teacher who gave evidence to the committee talked about going to a voluntary body at weekends to exchange best practice but said that there was no guidance from the Executive.
We have worked hard over the past year and a half to change or improve in specific areas. However, there is a point at which—almost like the question that Fiona McLeod asked earlier—we start to talk a different language.