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The Member has supplied the following translation: A dh’fhaighneachd de Riaghaltas na h-Alba na tha e a’ dèanamh gus cruth-atharrachadh a thoirt air a chrìonadh a chaidh aithris anns a’ chuid den òigridh aig a bheil a’ Ghàidhlig anns na h-Eileanan an Iar.
It is unacceptable to say that there is a queue that lasts only a minute when it is an automated machine that answers. She needs to ask more questions of the police.
Do we need to use existing vehicles to bring that finance together and de-risk the investment? In the light of some of the comments that we have just heard, are city region deals or other mechanisms needed, not only to de-risk the process but to generate the huge amount of finance that is required?
I asked whether it would be possible to see the pin once the repair was carried out, and whether the other pins would be replaced so that all the pins on the bridge were visible.
I think that a framework could address it, but a lot of the time private investors say, “You have to de-risk it and then we’ll invest.” That is fine, but where the risk lies is not for me to say—I am not an elected member.
The next question is, that motion S6M-12834, in the name of Jim Fairlie, which is a legislative consent motion on the Automated Vehicles Bill, which is United Kingdom legislation, be agreed to.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 February 2019
The existing A92 (previously A90) trunk road through Aberdeen (excluding the section at the A90/A96 Haudagain Improvement Project) will be de-trunked on 1 April, following the opening of the final section of the AWPR.
I put it to you that it is the Government’s role to de-risk those supply chains and, in other areas, to de-risk the capital that is deployed, potentially by coming in as an equity holder.