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There are also position papers that are publicly available on the Scottish Government’s website. The pressing concern—and part of the reason for using the top-up powers—was to deliver the new payments quickly.
Richard McCallum might want to add to that by talking about the detailed work. The point that Audit Scotland has made about financial pressure is absolutely right.
The scope of your review or what we are talking about surely should not be constrained by the resource allocation to the marine directorate as a whole, because what we want is the best approach.
We will take that. I guess that my point is that the audience numbers were the best that we had had since before Covid; we had a real sense of audiences returning to us.
However, Mary Fee is right to say that it is a critical area of work and to pick up on the point that was made earlier that, in this context, we are not talking solely about professional football players.
Notwithstanding that, we all have a role. The bestpoint that the member makes is that we must all take an interest and must do so at every level of society, from the individual upwards.