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We are really pleased that the end date for the rural and islands housing fund has been extended to March 2028, but there was a period of uncertainty right up until that was announced.
NHS workers are struggling to treat patients in a system that is not facing up to the reality of an ageing population and doing so with equipment that is, frankly, years out of date. Hospices have been asking the SNP for help for almost two years.
Wrapped around that question, what formal processes have NatureScot or the Scottish Government conducted to date? As far as I am aware, not an awful lot has been done.
I am interested in your views on whether, with the NPF and whatever outcomes come out of it after the review, we will have the capabilities and the equipment to tackle inequalities, given our failings on policy coherence to date. Does Catherine Robertson want to pick that up first?
Do you have a view on how effective the Scottish Government has been to date in drawing in private investment through city region growth deals, the Scottish National Investment Bank and the green investment pipeline, for example?
If we get upstream of the issue, we prevent some of those young people from becoming the people that Charlie McMillan mentioned, who might be institutionalised at a later date. I totally agree on the person-centred approach.
Otherwise, we can increase the target and say that it will be met by a certain date, but we will still not meet it. I am talking about not just an increased target but an increased focus on delivery.
Perhaps that should give the Scottish National Party pause to reflect on its policy agenda to date. However, the Law Society of Scotland does not believe that the bill is a slippery slope to curtailing the right to protest in different circumstances.
I am unaware of any data after that date. In some ways, the not proven verdict has been slightly maligned—perhaps unfairly; I am not sure—but it is certainly not, as it were, the go-to verdict in rape cases.