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There would be no prospect of state-of-the-art Typhoon jets for Lossiemouth or Leuchars and I do not think that the SNP would buynew Clyde-built type 45 destroyers for the Scottish fisheries protection fleet.
They are demanding that, in view of the recent catastrophes, an entirely new tourist board be set up. Unlike John Swinney, I and all my colleagues in the Scottish Executive are doing everything that we can to encourage people to visit Scotland.
The minister mentioned that he had visited a school. I invite him to visit St Andrew's School, which is a special needs school in Inverurie in Aberdeenshire.
It may be beneficial to members to visit Dublin to see why the Parliament there has changed to a new procedure, how it has gone about it and what changes have resulted.
The Commission is pushing quite strongly for at least part of the funding in the new period—not only in Scotland but elsewhere—to be used innovatively, not just to add to the budgets of domestic policy organisations but to try new things.