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I have to say that the evidence has been passionate, well argued and lively and that different organisations' evidence has been contradictory at times.
The crux of the matter is that the people who are affected should be asked. The people who live in those areas will have to live with the park for decades.
I want to get into the system people who live in Barra, Benbecula, Glasgow or Aberdeen, are interested in teaching Gaelic, cannot give up a year of their lives—for whatever reason—and cannot give up their jobs.
I might be speaking out of turn, but my view is that, if a person's daughter lives in Spain and there is a care home down the road from where she lives, we should support the person staying in that home.
It is a problem in my region—Mid Scotland and Fife—and in the area where I live. As Mr Swinney will know, it is a problem in towns such as Blairgowrie, Coupar Angus and Alyth.
They are a terrible inconvenience to the people who live nearby. Historically, the industry said, "Well, you shouldn't have built your houses so close.
The latter point is important. People who live in poverty do not necessarily live in wards or areas that are defined as deprived or vulnerable if postcode definitions are considered.