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Some of the issues that Mr McAllion has referred to were raised and discussed on the Dundee day visit, but perhaps not in quite such trenchant terms as he has used—no surprises there.
Nicol Stephen, the Deputy Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs, had a helpful and productive meeting with schools' representatives last week. He is now due to visit the schools to discuss their specific needs in more detail.
Then there is the constant volume and pressure of work, the people to see, to phone and to write to, the meetings to attend, surgeries to hold, visits to make, meetings to address, family to look after and so on.
The minister will be aware that the increasing population of Grampian, the North sea oil industry, and the very welcome but increasing visits of the royal family to Deeside put extra pressure on Grampian police.
Indeed, yesterday I had an opportunity to visit St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art and found it a very worthwhile experience.As Kenny Gibson will be aware, a national cultural strategy is proposed.
Will he give an assurance that he will work with the museum's directors to try to find a resolution to the funding difficulties so as to avoid the loss of some 80 jobs and an essential part of Scotland's maritime heritage? I recently visited part of the Scottish Maritime Museum—and a splendid museum it is.
Part of the problem was the introduction of an entirely new system, under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001, in an environment in which recorded information about provision before the new policy was implemented was very poor.
We are tackling homelessness and introducing new rights for housing tenants. We have introduced new funding, through the prudential borrowing regime, for local social housing.