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I warmly welcome the bill and the principles expressed in it, as a development to ensure that Scots law is fit for purpose in a modern commercial environment, that it is flexible and ready and, crucially, that it can provide contract security.
I think that the minister’s response to the committee was simply that there are other views, which is correct. All the views that can be expressed by various people are no more than that—views.
Is the— The finance sector has not exactly covered itself in glory recently—I am referring to credit crunches and so forth. Is not an offer of cash by a public sector organisation a relatively good prospect—a safer haven, so to speak?
They talked to me for a while and, from what they expressed to me, I felt that they did not have any positive role models and did not have anything else to do.
If members do not believe me, they should believe the motion that was drafted by COSLA leaders last Friday, which says: “Leaders express their deep disappointment with the final local government settlement and note that the increase in public pay sector policy with no additional funding for local government and the reprofiling of capital funding for town c...
I do not have the words, let alone the time, to express the admiration that I have for them and the work that they have carried out through the hardest of times.