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It is important for college students and taxpayers that we do not add an extra year for students because that costs us and the individuals.Smoothing of the articulation between college and university courses is important.
As committee members will be aware, we have received an extra paper in support of PE1451, in the form of a letter from Mr Bill Gibson, who is a constituent of mine.
This is not a time when any sector in society will welcome extra financial burdens and I note that certain sectors have raised on-going concerns about the initiative’s financial impacts and how they will settle with other factors that affect their long-term financial planning.
If I was in the Scottish Government and had a choice about focusing an extra bit of resource, I would probably focus on wind and marine, but I am sure that there is also a place for solar.
If we simply carried on providing care in the same way, we would have to open hundreds of extra hospital beds. We know that we have to change, shift the models and promote the idea of people living independently in their own homes.
Biomass is a useful renewable energy source because people can say, “The wind isn’t so strong today, so I’ll need some extra power—I’ll fire up my biomass boiler.”