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Given that resources are finite, a balance may then have to be struck between continuing existing grants and accepting new applications which develop new services and innovative approaches.
A concern of the Royal Yachting Association is that although the system may be introduced, it may cease operation at some point in the next 20 to 25 years.
Will it reduce bureaucracy and, in particular, assist the voluntary sector, which may have to make multiple disclosures for sports coaches who coach many youth groups, for example?
From correspondence that I have had, I suspect that, in the Western Isles and other areas, the matter may be up for review.The issue has a national perspective.
So it is money that you were unable to spend last year, given progress on the Holyrood project—in other words, it is Holyrood money, if I may put it that way. That is exactly right.