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I would be interested to hear from the minister when he sums up from which areas of the budget that extra £37 million has had to be taken in order to make up the security budget.The Commonwealth games is—as other members have said—a fantastic opportunity for Glasgow and for all the other communities and areas in Scotland.
It seems to forget that children grow up and need single rooms later on in their lives or that, for example, a person with a respiratory condition may need an extra room for the respiratory equipment.
Some of those authorities also employ wardens, and some that have not contributed funding for extra police officers have decided to put their money into having extra wardens instead.
That should include the Forth railway bridge, which has a great deal of spare capacity—extra rolling stock is needed, but we do not need an extra bridge.
An extra cost of £0.5 million a year would be imposed by the extra traffic that would result from abolishing the tolls.I agree with Des McNulty that this is the key challenge for the SNP Administration.