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I think that that touches on the point that I made in response to Robert Brown. Today, we are saying that we fully acknowledge and recognise at the heart of Government that the health department and the justice department can contribute to solving this problem.
Patons, which used to employ 3,000 people, has now withdrawn, switching production to China—a sad reflection on Gordon Brown and his sterling policies, which have stopped exports and sucked in cheap imports.
Oil is an all-Scotland industry and an all-Scotland resource.Of course the industry will change. We need to move towards brown-field and fallow-field development.
Firms are laying off staff and are demanding the return of desks in payment for unpaid bills. Can Robert Brown imagine that happening in the public sector?
We need mediation, reparation, community service orders and adequate supervision by social workers. As Robert Brown said, social work departments are short of people.