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Were there control panels taken off the Glen Rosa as well, or was it just the anchor bits that were taken off?

Douglas Lumsden wants in to follow up on the anchor issue, and then I will go to the deputy convener.

It is a question always of building to your strengths.

Douglas Lumsden, you have some questions.

Does that mean that the ferry is being handed over without a permanent solution?

I have just looked at the company accounts from last year. Employee salaries came to £23 million, roughly. That works out at about £50,000 a head for the employees that you have, including your subbies. If you have only one boat, and you had 400-odd people working on two boats, what is going to happen? I do not understand how much it costs to keep the lights on in the shipyard if you are working on only one boat, or how you will balance the underrecoveries at less than £10 million, given that your wages alone are £23 million. Perhaps you can explain that to me.

So, what is the total money that is required, currently, to keep the lights on? Salaries and all the other costs for the yard are how much, a year?

Will you get £40 million from the Government for the Glen Rosa next year?

There were blank faces from all the witnesses. Perhaps you could develop that point later in the meeting.

I have some questions for John Petticrew. I am sorry, John, that we have been talking about you while you have been in the room, but here is your chance to come in.

In February, on behalf of the committee, Jackie Dunbar and I visited the yard. We had a look around and saw what was going on. We were then somewhat taken aback by the change and your moving into post.

You gave some dates—four dates, in fact—for the delivery of the Glen Sannox, all of which were missed. I am trying to understand why those delivery dates were missed, because the reason given to the Parliament for David Tydeman’s departure was that he was continually missing such dates. You then went on to miss four handover dates. Could you enlighten us as to why that happened?

Could you enlighten the committee as to how long John Petticrew’s interim contract will remain interim?