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I was asking whether you will have extra money, as has been suggested by some members—£90 million is the figure that is being bandied about—or whether there is concern about the industry losing money and, potentially, jobs.
In fact, I am not all that clear about what an advanced nurse practitioner is, given the variability in the degree of training—or, should I say, extra training—that they have received.
We have to use drivers such as requiring reduced waiting times or giving people extra resource only if they can demonstrate that they have met targets or standards against which they can be held to account.
Requiring orders to be sent to interested persons would add unnecessary costs and create an unnecessary level of extra bureaucracy. For that reason, I ask the committee to resist amendment 212.I move amendment 67.
Do you think that pursuing additional legal powers and extra enforcement, as is suggested in objective 4, is really the way to develop a cycling culture in Scotland?
Where is the beef, as Alison McInnes rightly wants to know?Forestry bodies are getting no extra money, and local authorities and non-departmental public bodies are being squeezed.
Although the move has given some older people £1 or so a week extra in their pockets, it has also resulted in cuts to their day care services at a time when the Scottish budget has increased by £600 million.
I hope that you do not mind, but my point is actually on the financial aspect. There are hidden on-going extra costs in the new legislation, because it will confer several extra functions on HIS that NHS QIS does not currently carry out.
I am simply making the point that, if some fora evolve into marine planning partnerships, there will not be extra bodies. There is a variety of circumstances, and I am not pre-empting anything.