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We would be more relaxed about the scheme if the Executive was saying that the scheme was important and that it would fund it—as it would fund any scheme that supported business in other ways.
We are examining the question of development planning and access rights. We intend to consider the issue of realignment of paths where those could be obstructed by development—either on a temporary basis, during construction, or more permanently.
A system will be put in place that allows health boards a longer notice period for new drugs that are being developed in order to enable them to budget for them more appropriately.
The past 18 months have been a phase of policy development. Many of the key targets that we met in that time related to the development of new policies and the putting in place of training for staff, for example.
It is obviously stepping down the amount of deficit funding that is being made available, but it is not withdrawing all the deficit funding for this year.
As the convener said, that is a flexible test, and the committee would have to take a view on what was necessary and what a satisfactory consolidation was, but that is the best test that people have come up with so far.
As Mr Ruskell will recall, the forward strategy for agriculture highlighted the fact that there was insufficient connection between the development of agricultural policy and the development of environmental policy.