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I welcome to the meeting Derek Mackay, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Constitution, and Scott Mackay, head of finance co-ordination, Scottish Government, and I invite the cabinet secretary to make an opening statement, if he so wishes.
We realised that we are on a journey with regard to neurodivergence, and that is why, just over two years ago, we established the neurodiversity strategic working group to co-ordinate our approach to neurodivergence in relation not only to people in our organisation, but to those in the communities that we serve.
You only have to go into a small Highland community to see a museum about something—the local clan or a bit of its industrial heritage. Is there enough co-ordination across the sector, whether on the private or the public side?
That creates an opportunity to look at tree planting as a solution and a means of partly addressing that challenge, but it will be better if that is done in a co-ordinated and negotiated way, rather than seeming to be imposed.
Thirdly, by making the project co-ordination costs eligible for grant and loan funding, there would be the potential to help these organisations to scale up.
The petition merely holds the Scottish National Party Government to account for what it has promised—to ensure the same equitable and co-ordinated access that the minister wrote about.
One of the things to say about any hydrogen system is that it is complex, with multiple infrastructures, and we need to find a way to co-ordinate the investment and the development of those.
Nothing is more frustrating for a bus driver than their rota telling them to leave the railway station a couple of minutes before the train arrives at the platform. There needs to be some co-ordination and planning. Frankly, in order to plan things in that way, there needs to be some form of public control, because if the system is operated simply on the ba...