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Their kids grow up unable to have breakfast before going to school in the morning, which means that they are not best placed to make the most of their educational opportunities or to have the best chance in life.
I look forward to working with all the organisations such as Age Scotland that champion older people’s rights to ensure that the best is yet to come for Scotland’s older people.
I have been the Minister for Transport and the Islands for the best part of two years, and I have to say that travelling around the islands and meeting island communities is one of the best parts, if not the best part, of my portfolio.
I have a national portfolio and I am tasked with ensuring that, as best we can, we have a consistent approach to engagement with local and national partners.
We do not have a limit to our ambition, but nor are we saying that we must get to a certain spend. We want to get the best possible content and to make sure that we have a competitive environment in Scotland in which we deliver the very best programmes.
The health service budget is increasing overall, and in order to keep that going we must make sure that the money is well spent and used to the best effect. That is what we are doing.
For example, I work closely with partners on the Tay cities deal on what the deal will look like; what the best opportunities are for Tayside; and how ambitious we as partners are in that respect.