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As we mentioned in earlier answers, the account will always balance to zero, and there have been fluctuations over many years into surplus and into deficit.
The First Minister says that those are exceptional cases, but let me give her another one, as there are so many. We spoke to another patient, who attended Monklands hospital.
We have an infectious virus circulating that has taken far too many lives. It is still doing too much damage: 1,000 people are in our hospitals with Covid right now, as we speak.