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The difficulty that we face is that the current multiyear agreement with local government employees and teachers comes to an end in March next year. We are just about to get into negotiations with the unions on future settlements.
The fourth line of paragraph 9.5 of your main precognition uses the words:"assuming also that a vessel sails 10 hours per day during March through September, and 8 hours per day during the remaining months".For the avoidance of doubt—I know that I am probably the only stupid person in the room—do you mean sailing in the Solway area?
I am sure that the committee has looked at the transport study and the work that was done thereafter to produce the Airdrie to Bathgate proposal.The project flowed from that work and, as the committee would expect and as Parliament knows following my statement on 16 March this year, it has been through the type of assessments that all our capital transport ...
I think that the intention of the mechanism was to avoid, rightly, the fabled local authority roads situation, in which tarmac suddenly appears all over the place in February and March as the end of the budget period approaches.