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I recognise how much hard work optimism is these days. The breakneck, rapid process that we have for budget scrutiny makes it all the more challenging to have that kind of analysis.
There needs to be a cultural recovery, too. I welcome the rapid Creative Scotland and Screen Scotland responses to the pandemic, and their support for individual artists and fair work.
That might just be during the emergency period, but there ought to be more opportunities for digital working to ensure that, no matter where someone lives in Scotland, they will get the same rapid and accurate support with the same rights of appeal.
Outwith the bill, I hope that measures to provide the homeless with accommodation are rapid and successful. In the short time that I have, I will focus on the provisions that relate to justice and policing.
The issues are the ability to cope with rapid fluctuations in demand as things are brought online; the ability to energise very high-power infrastructure, which raises lots of voltage control challenges; and that sequenced approach.
However, if we consider utilities and communications, the changes in the market structure and in the bodies with which people are having issues are so rapid that I am not sure how you can chase those moving targets.
We need a comprehensive new system to prepare our workforce for rapid changes in technology and for workers who will have several jobs in their career.
I will move on to finance and would like it to be quite rapid fire. We can start with Gordon Nelson, because I am conscious that Federation of Master Builders members have identified finance as an issue.
Mr McKee is right in saying that, if there is more rapid population growth generally, the Barnett formula becomes less advantageous to Scotland, because it takes account of population growth for the increment but not for the baseline funding.
Other conditions were not mentioned in the 2009 standards, which just gave specific indicators for epilepsy, and epilepsy itself is not even mentioned in the chart that I referred to. 10:15 The older standards mentioned rapidity of access to care for epilepsy and first seizure.