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The new proposals will allow patients who have already been assessed by a GP to bypass accident and emergency departments entirely and get faster access to appropriate specialist teams.
That is why, last week, we announced a package of £13.5 million, a lot of which will be spent on marketing Scotland to get tourists back and on reassuring people that this is a safe country to visit.
Usually, we are given the message that the Executive wants to take more time to get the legislation right. Would it not be better to take more time to get it right?
It is a defect in government—it is not party-political issue—that, when people get riotous, they get goodies. We should give the necessary support to our poorer communities.
I was most impressed by the young people themselves, who said that the message seems to get across if they are able to get involved in the drama workshops that are available and if on-site campus cops get involved in these projects.
They will lose access to their local golf course—a new route will have to be provided, but it will take people much further away before they get there.