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I will then bring in Fulton MacGregor, and I have a couple of follow-up questions. We might therefore run on an extra five minutes or so. I am grateful for that.
Maybe I am underestimating the popularity of Dundee after the big weekend, but we expect it to be more of an extra. Like the parking levy, it is not something that we, as a council, are looking at.
The embedded decisions that I talked about a moment ago caused extra man hours and time delays and, as I said in my opening statement, time costs money.
If they have odd numbers of trustees or trustees who flow in and out from time to time, the extra effort involved in trying to work out what majorities might be strikes me as superfluous.
We work very closely with the local authority—in Perth and Kinross, for example, we have weekly meetings with the council—to discuss how we will support the hotel users and how we will buy extra services to make sure that they are well and that their wellbeing is protected.
Thank you for taking the time to speak to us today, and for giving us extra time. On the emergency budget review, I would not be surprised if there is another one this year.
The loss of access to the EFSA has had implications for us and has meant that, in GB, we have had to put in place an entirely new process, which involves the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland and which has added extra complexity for the businesses that have to adhere to different processes.
Some people might say that we should have hundreds of extra beds in hospitals, sitting empty most of the time, so that when a pandemic or similar event comes along we are all ready for it.