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It will alsoidentify the opportunities once the crosswind runway is no longer operationalfor development in that area and intensification of development in Edinburgh Park.
Does the First Minister agree that the new constitution, far from setting up a European superstate, as the Eurosceptics and the Conservatives suggest it will do, will set up a flexible Europe with a stronger voice for nation states?
We know that situations change and that ministers must have some flexibility to deal with that. We have conceded the point in the past that legislation should contain such a provision.
It is not therefore possible to specify exactly what circumstances would cause the procedures to be invoked. The procedures are flexible and allow for a range of possible circumstances.
However, there are benefits in having flexibility—for example, to cover the return of a resident's relative who wishes to take over the management of the incapable adult's affairs.
One suggestion that I mentioned in the presentation that I gave on the issue at a previous committee meeting was on the doubling of the available funds which, in essence, have been made up of money that is not used—they are the underspend within structural funding.
As we get closer to the creation of such an authority, we will focus on the details, on the scope of the authority and on funding issues. The authority's location is one of the key issues for us to examine.