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I support Mike Pringle's basic premise that it would be reasonable for car parking charges at the new site not to be more expensive for parents than they are at the hospital's present site nearer the city centre.
We need to be sure that we do not introduce measures that make it uneconomic for a site operator to run a site, the result of which would be the disappearance of the site and 30 or 40 homeless people.
It is difficult to see how officials could be expected to deal with such circumstances other than as they have done.Currently, in Perth and Kinross as a whole, 25 sites are constrained, but only four of those fail SEPA discharge constraints.
I thank the minister for his response, particularly on the point about financial assistance, which is of considerable reassurance. I will not press amendments 26 and 29. Amendment 26, by agreement, withdrawn.
I was not thinking of Stewart Maxwell's bill, although I know one or two people who might be praying against that. I was interested in paragraph 26, the opening sentence of which mentions that "some 1,500 negative instruments" come before Parliament each session.
It also said that the upgrade should be done by 2005; despite that, work has not even commenced on site. Yesterday, there was another fatality at the junction.