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That seems to suggest that a proportion of out-of-hours services, which are properly the responsibility of NHS boards, is now being picked up by the Scottish Ambulance Service and may be partly incorporated into its see-and-treat mechanism, which is growing quite rapidly.
We know that it is not doing what the SNP first suggested it would some years ago. You hinted that—if I may paraphrase you—the role that it is taking on of sharing information and best practice may make it more useful to smaller councils.
The infrastructure is quite old, it requires a lot of maintenance and there is potential liability with it, so the renewables industry may not want to adopt it. Furthermore, it may not necessarily be where the renewables resource is for offshore wind.
I suspect that eastern Scotland, the Moray firth and the whole eastern seaboard of arable land in Scotland may experience a dynamic supply response in field vegetable production.
I am concerned about the scrutiny panels taking into account—or not, as the case may be—the cost implications of their decisions, and which services may be cut as a result of decisions and recommendations.