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As we move into stage 2, we need to produce not only correct legislation but a financial memorandum that has adequate financial resources for local authorities.
I completely concur with Iain Gray’s assessment of the data that is produced: the children’s names, the numbering, and the questions and the ticks or crosses that can be produced from them.
As I said in my opening remarks, if the SNP simply produces our manifesto commitment and puts it to the chamber, we will not win, because this is a Parliament of minorities.
The 1997 paper that Allan Macartney produced could form a useful basis for policy that we might adopt now, although others might take a different view.
How far does the balance have to tip, though, so that companies prefer to stay here to produce renewable energy rather than produce oil and gas in Greenland, for example?
You have said that COSLA will measure that. Will COSLA produce a report card at the end of each year, showing what individual councils have achieved or what they are on course to achieve?