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Some committee members had the privilege of coming out to Polmont to meet YouthLink Scotland and some of the young men who are working with you, which we appreciated. We found the visit useful. Your comments about what happens when someone comes out of an institution and how we might support them were amplified during that visit.
The cost of linking Glasgow Central and Glasgow Queen Street stations would be insignificant compared to the positive effects of a scheme that offers such widespread and fundamental benefits to the rail network.
As members will recall, I have in the past compared the Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform to a mafia don or a sinister local government hard man.
Our proposal would replace, penny for penny, the money that the council tax raises, but it is based on the ability to pay. That compares with a system that punishes pensioners.
The total for the seven-year period is about £948 million. If we divide that by seven and compare it with the agriculture policy total, we will get some idea about the relative importance of the instruments.
In terms of the project that we have at the moment, we are looking at the designs that are available and comparing them with the tests that we looked at.
The difficulty may be to do with whether apples are being compared with pears. Andy Wightman may have compared the information from the pre-1975 asset registers with the information that he got back from the present local authorities, which is obviously contradictory and probably seriously underreports what common go...