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Helen Eadie Okay, Presiding Officer—I am grateful for your tolerance. I will leave it at that.
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Helen Eadie Yes, but it was FETA and the local authorities that developed the idea in the beginning, and the fact is that starving FETA of cash diminishes the important role that it played in developing that idea—and then the Government comes along to provide the cash. That was my point. FETA came up with solut...
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Helen Eadie (Cowdenbeath) (Lab) Alex Fergusson said that it was a long road to the bridge and then John Pentland, who is sitting behind me, said that it was a bridge too far—I say to him that it was never a bridge too far in my book. If I have to give credit where credit is due, I am very glad that the Government is building a new...
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Helen Eadie I thank the minister for that answer and for the very good debate that we had on the issue just a few weeks ago. How does the minister propose to deal with the apparent intransigence of a variety of officials in Fife Council, Network Rail, Scottish Water and other organisations who appear not to be ...
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Helen Eadie (Cowdenbeath) (Lab)
1. To ask the Scottish Government when it last had discussions with relevant officials concerning flooding in Fife. (S4O-02155)
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Helen Eadie Convener, I should clarify for the Official Report that when I mentioned “28 billion” I was talking about euros, not pounds.
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Helen Eadie I believe that a previous bulletin said that there was 28 billion across the EU for broadband. Given that the UK Government had made a certain amount available—£375 million is the figure that comes to mind—the amount of money that was coming to the UK as a member state was pathetic. All these Tories...
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Helen Eadie I certainly support Willie Coffey’s comments.
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Helen Eadie I share those views, convener.
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Helen Eadie I was interested to read on page 6 that the budget for the proposed Erasmus for all programme is to have
“a reduction from the initially proposed €17 billion (which would have been a 63% increase on the current ... budget)”.
We were all very fearful that there would be a huge r...
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