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When you look at the end of the previous Scottish parliamentary election, when we were finally allowed to go out, get involved and get back to some form of normal campaigning, we managed to get things moving and deliver leaflets.
With any new depots, I would know before the first bit of soil was dug what the plan was and what was going to be there. We do not get that foresight with the ferries—we get a fait accompli.
This helps assess value for money and supports future planning. 10.7 Record of training activity • All completed training activities must be recorded in People HR.
Where our on-board crews have been able to carry out such activities, that is what they have been doing, so we have increased some maintenance activities.
Our position over the past couple of years has always been that support should go only to active farming. However, if we do not give support to inactive farming, the money simply stays in Brussels; we cannot call it down and are therefore not able to transfer it from inactive to active farming.
Some of the criticism that I have heard is that there are teachers but that they are perhaps not at an advanced level of training and, therefore, a young person does not get the full advanced experience that they could get.
However, there is no direct ferry service—there is no way to get to Coll and Tiree directly—so people would have to go through Oban to get back out to those islands.