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What I do know to be true is that the Executive has provided an extra £16 million of resources for additional science equipment since 2002, and that we are providing a further £2 million next month for that development.
Businesses that needed support will have gone to the wall. I welcome the extra £50 million in support that Liberal Democrat ministers in the Executive have secured for the fishing industry.
To ensure that we make progress in Scottish education, this Government has put money back in—something like £1.3 billion extra—to try to repair some of the damage that was done by our Conservative colleagues.
It would be the wrong approach to suggest that there might be extra funding, whether a small amount of extra funding or a lot of extra funding—you can imagine all the hypothetical scenarios about which I might be asked.
Unfortunately, we have limited time—because of the legislation that we have before us, we are officially the busiest committee, and this is an extra meeting. However, I reassure you that we take the whole matter very seriously.
I thank Paul Martin for attending this afternoon.We have had a good opportunity to discuss matters relating to the bill and the minister kindly gave us an extra half hour to discuss amendment 148.
I will leave the question of fairness for the moment, but it is argued that if the third-party right of appeal is introduced, there will be extra delays in the system and damage to the economy.
It is difficult to think of a solution to that because, if an employer is taking on someone, they want them to work at 100 per cent and do not want to be faced with extra costs that they think might be incurred in supporting people at work.