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I will deal briefly with that question now—it may arise again later. The specification of the NorthLink PSO is different, as I think the member knows, from the west coast PSO.
I am not as worried about genealogy. That may interest other members more, but the business convention/golf market is important and could be more important.
It has come to my notice recently that people with mental health problems and learning disabilities in Inverness are being moved from the category of supported accommodation to that of housing support. That may be for the best reasons. I would like to think that it is.
If the Executive is seriously considering ideas, I suggest that a practical solution would be to consider setting up a Scottish trust for public investment. Councils may want to bypass the Executive to do that.
From the information that is available to me—as I was born and bred in Porty, it is not a sport that I enjoy playing, although that chance may yet come—I gather that there are some 40 shinty clubs.
Members of the Scottish Parliament are elected representatives of the people and should be treated as such by every minister and every civil servant in the Executive.Finally, I would like to reiterate a point I made in May last year when I stood for the post of First Minister.
Sooner or later, councils—regardless of their political complexion after May—will have to attach greater priority to that responsibility, if the situation is not to deteriorate further.I am afraid that we are talking about a situation in which it is easy for councils, because of competing demands and pressures on their budgets, to postpone the repair of a r...
I know that, whenever they start to do that, there is a great emotional pull attached to selling the family silver. There may be some good examples, but, in general, local authorities do not have a good record of managing their asset base.