Seòmar agus comataidhean

Vivienne Mackinnon, with regard to the rest of the world, as opposed to the EU, what has been the impact on your sector? You describe how fewer vets come in our direction. Vets definitely left the UK, particularly during the COVID period. Many of them from central Europe have gone home and discovered that their economies have been transformed in the last couple of decades and now they are working at home. What about the rest of the world? Do we have vets coming here from the rest of the world?

Is that a barrier? I am not following you.

Is that the case despite the shortages? Have the shortages not driven up salaries?

Yes, but from a negotiation point of view, we have given away the house before. That is stating the obvious, is it not?

Wow. I might be the only person surprised at that, but I genuinely thought that after seven years—I know how hard that qualification process is—architects would be earning more than £38,700.

Yes. I am trying to verbalise my shock at this discovery.

Yes. Has the quantum of energy within the profession been diminished in Britain and Scotland?

Is it not greater than mobility? Is mobility the key element of it? Is the cross-fertilisation of ideas dependent on mobility, or is it bigger than mobility?

Please do.

However, that would be rare for Scottish architects. When hunting down opportunities, you have a niche with your bridges, but, generally, would it be rare for Scottish architects to do such work?