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A further risk in the oversight committee attempting to fulfil its duties would be when the committee contacted a family member who was not appropriate.
They are to be the first point of senior contact for the local authority and other partners locally and the lead officer for the services in community planning.
It is often mentioned that Highland Council runs a similar scheme to the named person scheme and has had a single-point-of-contact approach in place for a number of years.
CalMac will be able to provide the cumulative or comparative figures, should the member contact it. I thank the cabinet secretary for the excellent announcement of the direct award of two vessels to Ferguson Marine.
If it is—there are often lots of good reasons for having face-to-face contact—that is fine but, if not, we have good facilities throughout the Parliament.
You would not need to walk very far from this room to buy alcohol this afternoon—arguably, the same could be true for drugs—but my point is that we have a different view of alcohol.
Those will run for a number of years, so we are hedged for 47 per cent for that period. The big issue is that we have to buy the remaining 53 per cent on the wholesale market.