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It is good watching for anyone who has a spare hour this evening.My colleague Margaret McCulloch mentioned the Hollywood stars who came to Glasgow with Brad Pitt to make “World War Z”. Anyone who walked through Glasgow when that film was being made would have recognised that something special was going on.
Sometimes they fall out, and they might go to another scheme and spread stories by saying that someone is going to do X, Y and Z. They are the instigators of a lot of conflict.
If we put the information out there, give people scenarios and ask them whether X, Y or Z is appropriate, or whether there is a religious view on the matter, that facilitates discussion.
In 10 years’ time, will the Public Audit Committee be able to look at the outcome and say, “Yes, legacy delivered, X, Y and Z”? Auditors are always wary of saying, “In 10 years’ time, X will happen.”
In some cases, they have said that Atos allocated no points, but the decision maker increased that to X, Y or Z. However, Atos has said that it does not allocate points.
Satellite positioning can give both those dimensions—in effect, it can give the X, Y and Z co-ordinates. In isolation, that might be fine, but we should bear it in mind that we have a land register that is already substantially populated.
Scottish Water might come to us and say that it thinks that it does not have enough money because of X, Y and Z—in a different world, the rates bill might have been such an issue.