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The chamber will not need reminding that, as the Scottish Fiscal Commission has warned, Scotland’s economy will not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024 at the earliest.
Therefore, we face a choice: do we revert to a pre-pandemic normality, a normality that has failed too many for too long, or do we choose something different?
There needs to be a better understanding of how they will ease to allow us to get back to where we were pre-Covid. The position that we are currently in would not be sustainable in six to 12 months.
Right now, we are sitting with £700 million that is meant to pay for not only all the commitments pre the most recent ones but, on the face of it, all the most recent commitments that have been made.