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They will get to a point at which they think, “I can never pay it off, so why do I care?”. That is clearly a strong pitch for workplace learning. I think that what you have said is true across the board.
We recognise that we will always be pitched against other services—services will always be struggling in terms of which one should get the money over another.
The convener will understand perfectly well that, every time you step on to a football pitch, there are 65,000 people there in an advisory capacity but there is one person making the decision.
Taking the opportunity to replace the UK as a gateway to Europe and pitching well above its weight in the world, it is unique in wrestling with a surplus challenge.
There is usually an opportunity to get into the room, to make a pitch, to engage with its investment team and to understand the opportunities available.
They help to bind such communities, particularly those in rural areas in my constituency and many others. Where would you want to pitch to the Scottish Government that additional funding is needed and where it should come from?
Between 2011 and 2016, when I was Conservative spokesperson for health, I agreed to an offer to take the national health service off the football pitch, in an effort to work together to find a consensus around how we might proceed.
Is the national care service the instrument to deliver that consistency of service across Scotland? I ask Adam Stachura to pitch in with an answer. It could be.