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I would have imagined that, as soon as the bomb-blast proofing was agreed, the contractors would have been in doing X, Y and Z. Perhaps I am just being stupid in not understanding that there is something more to it than that.
For example, you could set out that COSLA wanted X and the Executive gave it X or that it wanted Y and the Executive gave it Y minus 3 and the reasons for doing that.
Do you want to add anything, Mr Conway? That would be an ideal way to approach matters. When he spoke earlier, Mr Stevenson made the point that practical steps are being taken.
Had they done so, we would have hoped for at least a deferment of the fee proposals until statistics had been gathered. Our ideal position is that there should be no fee.
However, we have a continuing service in the northern isles, and rushing in to retender would be worse than continuing with a clearly unsatisfactory process.No ideal scenarios exist, but time should be taken to consider what is best for the CalMac network and particularly for the communities that depend on it.
The Wanless report on public health, which the Treasury commissioned last year, spoke about the ideal scenario being one in which people were fully engaged in thinking about and making choices about their own health.
Richard Baker accurately drew from her the essence of what we discussed at that meeting, but I want to put her on the spot by asking what provision on differential fees the NUS would like to be in the final legislation when it comes along. Our ideal would be for the measure to be removed completely so that the minister would not have a power to set differen...