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She will be acutely aware of the great concern in Aberdeen at the council's £2 million cuts in schools' budgets, despite extra funding for schools from the previous Executive.
Although I welcome the debate, I cannot help but feel that it is a debate that we should have had a long time ago, perhaps before the Government committed an extra £800 million of taxpayers' money.
If a perfectly good school nearby is operating well and is 80 per cent occupied, there is not overprovision; there is just an extra classroom. One of our frustrations is that it seems that a council can decide which figure it uses in its guidance.
Another interesting rhetorical question is of course about how much extra economic growth we could generate in the central belt if we reduced rail fares to the market rate.
I just thought that I would go into extra time.The problem is how to bring about systemic change within the NHS in order to ensure that these things happen for people who are either deaf or blind or partially sighted.