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To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to ensure that its priorities regarding the Janny¿s Hoose in Inverness and the other healthy living centres in the highlands and islands are met by local authorities.
We need to look much more closely at the rivers and their catchment areas and to follow the lives of salmon. That is one of the lessons that we have learned on conservation: we cannot look only at one point in the lives of salmon; we must follow the whole track and think about the things that will impact on salmon th...
We have reduced that budget by 48 per cent since Police Scotland went live, so significant adjustments have been made in line with the pressure that we are under to live within our means.
We have to professionalise the workforce and pay people decent salaries, and the high quality that will result from that will improve the lives of the workers and the lives of children.
We heard from Richard Cooke last week that deer management groups—and private landowners in particular—are realising that we live in a different environment from the one in which we lived 50 years ago and that opinion is slowly changing.
On the positive side, I am pleased to say that Inverclyde Council adopted the living wage in November last year and Inverclyde Leisure has done so from April this year.
They have choked off recovery, pushed up the cost of living for many families, and created a rise in unemployment that many of us fear will lead to a whole new lost generation.I will go further.