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A genuine expectation was raised—not least by Scottish Water itself—that the substantial investment programme that has taken place at the plant over the last few years would result in a marked improvement to the odour problem.
Indeed, Margo MacDonald's column—which is in the Sunday Post, I believe—said something similar.Whenever a programme of work is announced that covers Scotland's six cities, each city will say that it wishes that it had had a greater share of the pot.
I am also happy to reflect on specific achievements: 20,000 modern apprenticeships; new youth courts and fast-track children's hearings; Scotland's first national park; the biggest school-building programme that Scotland has ever seen; and the purchase of the Health Care International hospital at Clydebank for the national health service.
The second is that we spent the past year ensuring that people who work for local enterprise companies have gone through a training programme to accredit them to give business advice, so that we no longer have such variable quality as existed in the past.
The coalition parties are opposed to the ideology of the SNP, which would end the hospital building programme, and the ideology of the Conservatives, which would privatise the health service.
You have not been—and with the future programme, you will not be—unbusy. I look forward to the results of your work as the public financial watchdog.I thank the Auditor General and Audit Scotland.
Last week Jim Wallace indicated that it would be dealt with in the Executive's legislative programme. Do members have any questions about or comments on the petition?
We got to the point at the end—that there is possibly an election in the offing.Let us compare what we are doing on health with the £25 million that another party committed itself to spending each year as part of its forward programme. We are talking about investing billions of pounds in our health service—that is important.We are attempting to reduce waiti...