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S6W-01513 Liam Kerr: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide extra funding to support the chartering of vessels, in order to provide immediate, additional resilience on the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Service (CHFS) network.
S6W-01513 Liam Kerr: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide extra funding to support the chartering of vessels, in order to provide immediate, additional resilience on the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Service (CHFS) network.
You project staff reductions in the coming years, but you are talking about training staff and putting in extra resources. Dealings with whole is where we will be able to automate.
What is clear here, and what I have found globally, is that public sector procurement usually ends up in extra expense, extra cost, bureaucracy and too many organisations.
Nature of pressures – lack of support 13 of the responses (36%) expressed some form of frustration and disappointment at the perceived lack of support being offered by the Scottish Parliament; compared the Scottish Parliament’s support unfavourably to that given by the House of Commons to MP staff during the pandemic. 11 respondents (31%) expressed frustration at being unable to remunerate or show appreciation to their staff for the extra...
However, the cabinet secretary wrote back to me after the last meeting and gave me an indication of the extra costs in the form of extra staff time, extra overtime, the extra staff who were required and any expert advice that was needed...
Before we move to the next speaker, I say that Ms Lennon has extra time and has up to eight minutes for her speech, and Oliver Mundell has a bit of extra time and has up to nine minutes to close.