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We want the independents to play an active role. There are 97 independent production companies in Scotland, which would be more than willing to get involved in helping to develop new programme ideas for any future channel.
Charlie McCreevy made it clear that, in this respect, the key priorities must be competitiveness, skills, infrastructure and getting more people into work; however, in Scotland, we need national targets for such activity.
This far out from the event, we should not still be dealing with the tendering process. We should be getting the event out to the event managers who, frankly, should be allowed to get on with organising it.On the details, I have all sorts of thoughts but I will break my rule in one respect.