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Increasingly, whether we like it or not, it is a fact of life that people will expect to have access to digital infrastructure so that they can access services digitally and live their lives the way that the rest of us do.
It is unacceptable that at least one in five disabled people or people living with long-term health problems who require an adapted house lives somewhere that is not at all or not very suitable to their needs.
Prior to that, NHS 24 intelligence and data went into the unscheduled care data mart, so data sharing is not something new to us. We use it for live service monitoring and planning, and strategic planning.
I support the precautionary principle and all that Mark Ruskell has said in that regard, but I am afraid that I do not feel that the science is sufficiently robust. Too many lives are involved. An awful lot of decisions and lives would be affected by what is almost an arbitrary decision.
It has been about Scotland being a good place to live and work in and about the uniqueness of an area where there are three bridges from three centuries.
It is about bringing the benefits of woodland to those who live in urban areas and ensuring that we work in those areas where the vast majority of people live.