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You mentioned your interest in outcomes and your preference for the nuts and bolts of a freight action plan to the grander sweep of the many strategies to which Mr Arbuckle referred in his question.
As Mr Dalgetty said, we have been disappointed because we have had many difficulties not with Seafish, but with getting the industry as a whole to propose schemes to utilise all our FIFG allocation.
Mr Williams's figures are repeated today in the letters column—11,000 jobs at a cost of £1 billion would work out at 100 grand a head. I do not know many public sector workers who receive 100 grand.
I am sure that the Parliament has many policies and procedures that do not cover every conceivable circumstance, but that is not a reason for not trying to anticipate circumstances that might arise.
Would it be made up of people from the health board or people who were more independent? How many people would sit on such a panel and what would their status be?
Obviously, in preparing for elections, returning officers do not know how many people will turn out. Ballot papers and so forth are not printed on the assumption that 49 per cent of the people will turn out.