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There is a legitimate question about the best way to use scarce public resources to drive the greatest positive outcomes, and I do not think that the best way to do that is to evict families.
However, I cannot stand here and tell Fergus Ewing, in all honesty, that it will be a risk-free event. We will do our best to mitigate the risk as best we can.
Therefore, although it was claimed that the investments that they were carrying out were in the best interests of the fund, they were not in the best interests of the wider population or the public sector as a whole.
I will make a few brief points and then leave space for you and your colleagues to put your questions to me. I will try as best I can to respond to them and we can take it from there.
In other words, we are looking across the whole assets of a health board or local authority in a town or part of a city to find out which areas it would be best to develop and which it would be best to dispose of.
It also considers how, as part of our Blue Economy approach, we can best share the marine space, to ensure we are managing in the right way, and making the best decisions, for the marine environment as a whole and all those who depend on it.
Ultimately decisions were taken locally, but engagement and support provided by the Scottish Government and others to procurement heads and facilitating and sharing best practice were key to supporting and encouraging appropriate consistency.