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Budget Scrutiny
The Committee undertook pre-budget scrutiny in advance of the Scottish Government's 2025-26 budget. The key focus was on the financial pressures facing organisations in the criminal justice sector and the main priorities for 2025-26.
Work still needs to be done to find out where other sites could be, so we could flag up that issue and ask what has been done to identify where other breeding sites might be.
Clear policies will allow the public and private sectors to plan for future required investment with another advantage being the potential to encourage private sector investment and so reduce the impact on public finances.
This is refuted as planning and building standards, and regulatory regimes do not relate to Social Policy and the public have no real means to object on behalf of future tenants of the proposed development.
It is a more mechanistic approach that basically says that the most recent past is the best guide to the near future and the longer history is perhaps a better guide further on.
As Joe FitzPatrick said, it was opened in 2000, and it is a very important visitorattraction in Dundee, which is a city that also includes HMS Discovery and Verdant Works.