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Yesterday, Karen Whitefield, Alex Neil and I were on visits to drugs organisations—particularly the health board ones—in Ayrshire and Arran, where concern was expressed that there was no co-ordination of resource allocation.
Seriously though, during our Local Government Committee visits round the edges of Scotland, we have sometimes been rather worried about accepting cups of tea and meals.
Consider a whole class group—such as the one that visited me in the Parliament— leaving school at the end of fifth or sixth year, hoping to further their education.
I know from first-hand experience of visiting dairy farmers, pig farmers and sheep farmers in my constituency that they all have crises on their hands.
The idea is to try to create a fire-break around those areas and so slow down the progress of the disease.On 26 March, we introduced the policy of also slaughtering all stock at premises contiguous to—that is, next to—infected premises.
In every primary school that I have visited in my constituency, the teachers speak with pride about the introduction of classroom assistants and the difference that they are making to education in those schools.
However, in Aberdeenshire, there might be a specific local problem that has to be taken into account, in the same way as the 26 inhabited islands have to be taken into account in Argyll and Bute.