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One of the concerns is that delivery is still far too inconsistent. Depending on where people live, they will get very different experiences; we heard a lot about that in all the research and audit work that we did.
I will start with agency nursing. There was a rule that nurses living in a particular health board area could not be employed as agency staff for that health board.
That is a balanced approach, but it is necessitated by the budget settlement that we have. We have to live within our means. I accept that you have to live within your means, but is it not pretty clear that you are moving money away from Scottish Enterprise?
We have seen the proliferation of food banks across our country, we suffer from food poverty, and an estimated 22 per cent of children living in Scotland live in poverty.
I understand the significance of the issue. Why? Because as a society we now livelives in which, in many respects, broadband is an essential service with regard to the way in which we undertake all our transactions and activities.
She talked about the sort of country that we want to live in, but the vision that she outlined was not of the kind of country that I want to live in, or that 62 per cent of Scots voted for.
What is the Scottish Government doing to ensure that the project’s training, which literally saves lives, is rolled out in schools across the whole of Scotland?