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The minister has chosen option 1—I have already mentioned George Lyon's choices—but he now has to convince the huge majority of people in Helensburgh and Lomond who wanted option 2 that they will not have to go to Raigmore hospital in Inverness and that NHS Highland will have enough money to buy services from NHS Greater Glasgow.
In the way in which I look at the world, we are always constrained by where we are. Drawing exercises on a blank sheet never work in the real world.My position was clear at the time of reorganisation: I was in favour of regional tiers.
However, could we not start by explaining why, when the prudent course for the average man or woman to take when buying a house is to arrange a mortgage, we have to pay for our new house down the road out of three years' wages?
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How are the resources for developing all those other aspects of the curriculum bearing up? Is there funding to buy things in, when it is necessary to do that, and to build on and get the skills into the schools?