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Would you like a social work agency to help to support allied health professionals, and would you like those services to work together?

I forgot to say that I am a former clinical nurse educator for NHS Dumfries and Galloway, so I am interested in the standards of education that would be delivered across the whole of Scotland.

Thank you.

Good morning to the cabinet secretary and the other witnesses. I am interested in finding out a wee bit about leveraging additional funding. Given the current fiscal constraints, cabinet secretary, are you considering any options for raising additional revenue to support the delivery of the policy ambitions for fisheries? We heard evidence about considering a review of landing levies, or exploring options for leveraging private investment from offshore renewables. Are you considering those?

You mentioned that you work closely with Gillian Martin, the acting cabinet secretary, to look at offshore and marine planning. Are there opportunities to continue to make sure that good collaboration takes place, so that any opportunities can be explored?

Tier 1 and tier 2 will get most of the funding, then tiers 3 and 4—how does it work?

Will we get further detail as it is prepared?

I just have a wee supplementary. You said that tiers 1, 2, 3 and 4 are not really a hierarchy. It is more like a sphere, and some of tier 1 might cross over into other support mechanisms such as those for biodiversity and sustainability. You cannae just pigeonhole every tier, because there is a lot of cross-portfolio work that needs to be taken into account. I see George Burgess nodding, so I assume that that is what it means—you cannae just pigeonhole each tier.

The SSI is about providing on-going stability and certainty up to 2030 while other programmes are being developed.

Thanks.