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I note, with gratitude, the selection of an urgent question this afternoon, but many people outside the chamber will wonder why time for an extra half-hour statement opens up when it suits the Scottish Government.
For context, Aberdeenshire Council will receive £521.3 million in 2022-23 to fund local services, which equates to an extra £44 million to support vital day-to-day services, or an additional 9.2 per cent in comparison with 2021-22.
Unless something was going to come with a large amount of extra work—in which case we would have to look at the staffing to go with it—it should not make a difference to how we operate.
We know that, throughout the pandemic, there was extra pressure on environmental health teams due to enforcement of coronavirus regulations, and we know that that came with a cost.
We have not been given the full 28 days, so I intend to write to the Scottish Government to ask why the SI is urgent and why an extra few days, which would have allowed us to scrutinise it properly, have not been given.
The changing room and changing room extra time programmes delivered by Scottish Action for Mental Health aim to bring men together through the power of football and provide a safe space for them to talk about their mental wellbeing.
The Labour Party is calling for another £14.2 million to be invested in the yard. It is not extra. It is an extra £14.2 million, because, as Mr Johnson will remember, we gave the yard £30 million—well, Derek Mackay did, without telling the Parliament or the minister who had ordered the ferries.
In our programme for government, we promised 150,000 extra appointments and procedures, but we now expect to exceed that and to deliver 213,000, meaning that, in total, we will deliver an extra 300,000 appointments and procedures.
To see that, although the system is crying out for extra investment, so much of that extra investment will go direct to the Treasury— Thank you, minister.