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Maurice Corry can have a little bit of extra time, in the interest of fairness. 17:34 I thank the Presiding Officer, and I thank Mark Ruskell for this members’ business debate.
Having been heavily involved in the Islands (Scotland) Bill, I think that that level of funding is appropriate, given the extra costs and challenges that islands face.
That is how it should be. We have written the extra clarification carefully, so that it is compliant with the devolved powers that are set out in section 37 of the Scotland Act 2016.
You are saying that the money that you are getting is the local authority money that we talked about, health board money, which is flat cash, plus the extra £100 million, on top of that. Yes.
You are making that prediction because you are introducing the new route to Poland and because you have all the extra slots that other airports do not have.
I want to explore a little bit how the bill will help with that and will not just add extra reporting or extra work that will not actually deliver results for the people that we are trying to help.
When the cabinet secretary answered Ash Denham’s question about what the measure of success would be, he talked about more passengers, flights and operators, but one extra passenger is “more” and one extra flight is “more”.
For example, the university would send flyers to young people from a school where there had been a problem with maths teaching to offer them extra maths stuff, but it looked to the students as if everybody was getting the leaflet.
You must conclude because one of your party’s members took an extra minute—that is why you are being cut short. 16:51 I congratulate the Scottish Government on bringing forward the independent review and on the tenor of the debate, which has been consensual.