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We have made a significant start in redrawing that relationship.It is essential that a fundamentally different relationship be mapped out between the department and the service to reflect the situation following devolution and the end of the internal market.
I was interested in what you said about the only potential problem that you envisage being a larger uptake of postal votes. As I understand it, following the new regulations, the political parties are encouraging people to use postal votes.
There is suspicion that the process has been driven by officials who have been following an anti-local government and pro-privatisation agenda, with little understanding of the realities of how road contracts work.
I am not suggesting for a moment that we should follow the Irish example and ditch our national opera company, but the Irish Government did listen to what people were saying.
We have to create the conditions in which the sparkle can come to the surface. Instead of following the process of technological change, Scotland can move into a position of decisive leadership, which would bring benefits to the Scottish economy.