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We have demands for more control and more influence when what we need is public control and public ownership.I will finish with a wee story from Rory Bremner, one of the finest comics and impersonators in Scotland.
There are several ways to do that. Number one is through arranging liaison between existing health boards, but that would have to be real liaison through which people gave and took and did not plant territorial flags and hang on.
As a unitary authority, we deal with each individual local authority. That crucial liaison would be a lot easier with all those authorities, not just some of them, if there was a standard set of procedures.
Perhaps that suggestion could be fitted in with the point about developing the departmental committee liaison officer service so that the DCLO is not simply the link for the committee but for all MSPs into the division or department that he works for.
We must attack that issue as well.As other speakers have said, we need to go for a rapid response. It is no use having a nice scheme in six months' time.
[accessed 6 December 2020]The plan identifies the key things that are needed to deliver the necessary changes, including:
Rapid growth in the supply chain ahead of the mass rollout of zero and low emissions heating systems commencing in the mid-2020s
Further technology innovation
Cost reductions and increased familiarity with and adoption of zero emissions ...
The fuel poverty working group identified a number of areas in which liaison with the housing improvement task force would be beneficial in the fight to eradicate fuel poverty.
A major project has just started in Ballachulish and, although it received Scottish Homes funding, we have had no indication that there has been any liaison with the local authority about HMO requirements.
A fundamental point about the estimates in the cost plan is that the figures are based on the construction manager working in liaison with the cost consultant, which does an initial market test and provides a pre-tender estimate on each package.