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The City of Edinburgh Council has made a submission for funding under our national and regional facilities programme, which will ultimately help the council to maintain and refurbish pools, particularly the Royal Commonwealth pool.
In addition, since the inception of lottery funding, sportscotland has awarded almost £530,000 to the facilities programme for angling, £200,000 of which was for the construction of the national game angling academy at Loch Leven.
It would be wrong of Tommy Sheridan to represent them as totally opposed to the Executive's plans because, almost without exception, they support our plans. They commend our free fruit programme, our breakfast schemes and our work on nutritional standards.
It is difficult to make an international comparison. Programmes are evaluated to assess their contribution to progress on a range of measures and their overall impact on the economy.
We continue to see challenges in the delivery of the Scottish Water service. I need to ensure that the programme for the years ahead includes, in particular, improved capacity for increased numbers of housebuilding projects in Scotland.
That is the opposite of the Executive's policy, which the commission has confirmed will deliver below-inflation charges now and in the future and allow Scottish Water to deliver one of the largest-ever capital investment programmes in the United Kingdom water industry.
That is why we have created the national volunteering programme, project Scotland; it is why we have invested in colleges and universities and in training and employment and made efforts through schools to ensure that young people take on responsibility and make a positive contribution.
Our solutions therefore have to cover a wide range of people, and that is why we have such comprehensive programmes in place.I turn now to the final point that Christine Grahame raised.
Is it not time that the minister accepted the difficulties that arise through the fertilisation programme and ensured that there is no more of it until steps are taken to ensure that all aspects, including the quality of the sewage that is dumped and sampling matters, are thoroughly guaranteed?
(S2O-7101) One of the recommendations of "Working for a change?" was for a programme of research to inform policy on the employment of people with learning disabilities.