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Yes, except that when those services disappear, they take jobs with them. The lack of services may mean that fewer people want to live in rural areas, because they do not have access to a post office, local shop, school or whatever.
When I asked yesterday, I was told that there was an international dimension to the debate, which may bring some more information before Parliament and may be something on which we wish to express a view.
Does the First Minister agree that it is imperative that we wash all the linen in public—no matter how dirty it may get and who may be embarrassed or hurt by the inquiry's findings—because Scotland must move on from this issue?