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Given the knock-on effects of the additional cost of living, along with the extra costs of building or whatever, did you expect a fall-off in the predicted spend?
One theme that came across strongly was that consumers lament the fact that they are always paying extra charges and that they are seen to have the responsibility to drive that change.
As part of that, there is also a special islands needs assessment, which gives our island authorities an extra uplift in recognition of their particular situation.
Are enough conversations happening among Government departments before they make announcements such as, “There are going to be 800 extra GPs”? Are they then speaking to the universities and giving them the funding?
If a separate labelling line needs to be run to supply a small market, there comes a point at which it is simply not worth doing that, because the cost of putting an extra label on a jar of jam or whatever it might be is too great for the size of the market that is being supplied.
Those producers also face the additional costs of either changing labelling and barcoding for the Scottish market or being charged an extra payment over those that introduce new barcodes.
Therefore, without catching a single extra nephrop, you could employ four times as many fishermen, which would benefit the creel sector, the environment and our coastal communities.
Instead, he is presiding over an exhausted and demoralised workforce. Our NHS staff are going the extra mile to care for us, so they deserve our undying gratitude, but they need more than warm words from the cabinet secretary.