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I congratulate Aileen Campbell on securing the debate.There are a few facilities that turn a group of buildings with people living in them into what we would recognise as a community.
I feel that the developers and the reporters underestimate the general public and the thousands who live in and use the parks, because we see, for example, the south side of Clyde Muirshiel park being eroded year by year.
I express my frustration that the project is not ambitious enough for the 21st century, in which we live. Why is there no freight capacity on the new railway?
Does the cabinet secretary agree that to infer otherwise is to insult local government staff and councillors, who work for an improvement in people's lives, day in, day out, week in, week out?
This may not commonly happen, but theoretically somebody who makes a living as a full-time funeral director may have no premises, so they would not need a licence.
To that extent, in doing this review, we have the advantage of all those years and experience of working between Governments. It remains a live document and set of processes, so we are not writing something in the abstract from either past experience or current issues.
Every parent and grandparent knows the joy that a child can bring to a family and how a new baby can change their lives for ever. They know the eagerness and anticipation that the family feels when a baby is on the way—the planning, the preparations and the decoration.
It is especially important to Orkney, Caithness and Sutherland and the Highlands and Islands more generally. We live in a time in which energy security is becoming more and more important.
The idea is that we must separate the them-and-us perception between the owners of historic buildings—Historic Scotland, the National Trust or whoever—and the communities who live where the buildings are. One of the real drivers for change is the fact that local communities’ knowledge is often better than that of the professionals.