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There will be a memorandum that will be quite specific about what we can and cannot do. We do not have access to banks to borrow money willy nilly—we have to do that through our shareholder.
Committee members will, I hope, have a copy of my letter to the convener, dated 25 October, in which I deal with the issues that the committee highlighted to be addressed in advance of the debate.
The money that will be paid to the Royal Bank will reduce Queen's Park's indebtedness to a level that can be accommodated within the new management arrangements.As I said in my statement in December, the Scottish Football Association has agreed to take on the responsibility for the future management of the stadium under a lease granted by Queen's Park.
Do you accept—as all the evidence suggests—that the people who are being poinded and subjected to warrant sales are generally those who do not have a bank account anyway? I do not have a huge amount of faith in the way in which banks deal with customers in hardship.
We should emphasise the need to resolve this matter urgently to reduce any potential anxieties or conflicts on the implementation date. It is important that we have an assurance that children will not be made to suffer as a result of bureaucratic squabbling.
Although there have been attempts to secure an injunction, the hearing has been postponed three times to date. The next slide shows the fields on which spreading has taken place in the past week.