 Mae'n gennym hwn i'r bydd y cyfnod yn hyfforddiad ac yn gwleidio am y Graf. Ddweud. A bod yna eu cyfrifio gyda'r cyfnod i'r newid o'r syniadol ar gyfer Caerdaeth Llywodraeth i'r maen nhw, a chyfodd ddiolch i'r Gwladau Gwladol, amdano hynny, sydd wedi'i gwneud dym ni'n gweithio cyd ngyfnodd yr ystyried â'r cofailiaid ysgol, dweud â'r cyd ymgol, ddych yn ddylech i amddangos gyrfa. Dwi'n gofio cyd amgylchedd gyda'r cyfnodd, mae gyfnodd yn ddiwedd gyda'r cyfnodd o wneud a sy'n gymryd i ddim ni i gael y bysgyntiau alluniaid. Ond rwy'n gwybod ddim yn ei gael y blynedd fawr i'r fwyoedd am dydyn ni i gael ei ddiweddigiaeth. I know this will be deeply frustrating for fans travelling to the Armenia match tonight. As the member knows, rail services and especially any additional services to support special events rely of course on rest day working. Rest day working is voluntary and relying on drivers working on their rest day is not sustainable, not for them and not for our rail service. As left the train drivers union is currently involved in a dispute with Scotland in relation to pay, that is not formal industrial action but it is true that drivers are choosing not to work on their rest days. That is our right, Presiding Officer, and I respect that. The reality is that this has made timetabling for tonight's match incredibly challenging for ScotRail and as such they have not been able to run an enhanced service, as was the case last week. As members will be aware, as left opted not to present ScotRail's offer to its members after they met last week, ScotRail has already indicated its disappointment and its frustration at that situation. I understand that the parties, however, are due to meet again tomorrow and I await an update to that end. Clearly we would all like to see the current pay negotiation settled so that we can get back to providing a full rail service for passengers everywhere. The answer is that there are no provisions. Football fans have been used to leaving matches early to beat the rush. In this case they have been told to leave early because there is no rush. There are no trains. Can the minister just agree with me that this situation is not acceptable and would she like to apologise to the Tartan army? The temporary sign table that ScotRail has implemented at the moment gives a more stable and reliable service for passengers. We know that people want certainty when they travel. ScotRail has therefore looked at how best to give as much certainty as it can during what has been a very challenging period for passengers. Traditionally ScotRail carries far more supporters to Hamden Games than return. Approximately 7,000 fans travelled to the Ukraine match last week, and only 2,500 travelled back. As generally, fans prefer to walk back to the city centre. It is also worth saying that the crowd tonight is expected to be far smaller than the Ukraine game. It is also worth saying that the six unadvertised buses held on Sambayet central station to support any onward travel issues after the Ukraine match last week were not used. ScotRail has advised that there is not sufficient bus capacity available to support transport of the crowds from Hamden to Glasgow, so that a high-capacity rail service would accommodate. Replacement buses are procured to substitute for planned or unplanned disruption, leaving no gaps in relation to the reduced timetable. To do so across a network at the current time would require an enormous fleet of buses at significant expense. If last week's 2,500 supporters, for example, returned to Glasgow, was to be replicated, that would require a fleet of some 50 buses, which would create its own transport issues in and around Hamden. However, given the wider industrial dispute that was announced yesterday, it is clear that real users right across the UK will be facing serious disruption. It is not of this Government's making the answer to this, to resolve the dispute. To that end, I look forward to discussing this matter with ScotRail after they meet with AsLeft tomorrow. We all want to see a resolution to this dispute, not just for the passengers who will be travelling to the football match today, but for everyone in Scotland who uses our rail service. Grimson, sir. Well, my word. So the Minister's answer to football fans tonight is walk. Walk to the city centre. That's her answer, because there's no other alternative, unless you've taken your own car. I am encouraged that there are going to be talks tomorrow. I know the Minister hasn't bothered to dirty her hands and getting involved with the talks so far, but can she tell us how confident she is that this situation will be resolved tomorrow and that we don't have a summer of chaos? Minister. Setting aside the member's use of language, Presiding Officer, I remind the member that I am not in the negotiating room. It is appropriate for ScotRail, the employers, to negotiate directly with the trade union to that end. That is how we resolve industrial disputes. However, in relation to the on-going dispute, it is important that we get to a resolution. I agree with the member tonight. In terms of the on-going challenges that are faced, I will seek an update from ScotRail to that end later today. I think that it is also important to reflect on the use of rest-day working, which is not a new feature, but which occurred on 1 April. It's been a feature of our railways for many, many years. Some in their railways may view it as an outdated concept, and those are conversations that I would like to take forward with our trade union partners tonight. I invite Mr Simpson to review his party's engagement with the trade unions. His colleague Grant Shaps, who said last week that the UK Government was actually drawing up legislation to ban trade unions from going on strike. As the TUC General Secretary has noted, it appears that the Conservatives are looking to pick a fight with the rail unions. The Scottish Government works with our trade union partners. We understand fair work principles and advocate for our trade unions. On that note, I am very much looking forward to working with our railway unions to discuss our national conversation on public ownership of Scotland's railways and how they can be part of moving that vision forward. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The Scottish Government has given Abelio a contract to provide rail replacement buses, but it appears yet again that there are no rail replacement bus services tonight to get fans home from Hamden. The Minister refused yesterday to say how much Abelio is getting paid, but what exactly is Abelio getting paid to do? The Minister has said that there is a shortage of buses to provide a rail replacement bus service, but they are not providing any buses to help passengers with this disruption. Is the Government's position seriously that there are no buses anywhere in Scotland that could be used to provide a rail replacement bus service tonight for fans from Hamden? The matter was raised yesterday at topical questions in relation to the four Abelio contracts that have continued over to allow for consistency moving into public ownership from April 1. It is the case that Scotland has confirmed that securing those rail replacement buses has provided significantly more challenging than prior to the pandemic. There are fall in the number of those available bus and taxi drivers. Coinciding, of course, was greater demand as the economy has opened up in relation to Covid has meant that there is less availability across the country. There are a number of staff and bus operators facing at the moment, not least Covid, and of course Brexit, which I believe Mr Bibby's party now seems to support. We are already seeing bus operators having to make some really challenging decisions around where they are able to provide services. I have asked ScotRail to consider at all times whether they are able to provide rail replacement services on this occasion. They tell me that that has not been the case. As we all know, ScotRail's temporary revised timetable is only one facet of industrial disputes taking place throughout the UK. While the Scottish Government wants all parties around the table to negotiate a fair and affordable pay deal, the Tories that it would seem would rather use the dispute between RMT and UK Network Rail to criminalise industrial action. That dispute will have a detrimental impact on events like football matches, as we now know. I ask what discussions the minister has had or is going to have with Grant Shaps regarding the UK Government's intended course of action for improving industrial relations in the rail sector. As I have reiterated today, unlike the Tories at Westminster, this Government supports fair work. We support the principle and the practice of trade unions and the right of people to join a trade union. I am not surprised to hear the Conservatives ramping up their anti-union rhetoric. To be clear, that has no support from this Government and it could not be further from our approach to including and involving our trade unions in our work, including in how we take forward Scotland's railways. I continue to engage with ScotRail and they are engaging with ASLIS later this week and the RMT to get back around the table and to resolve the current dispute. Parties are working together to reach a resolution, whereas the UK Government appears to want to make industrial action illegal. I have already written to Grant Shaps making this Government's view clear on its approach to the network rail dispute. I have also written to Network Rail to express this Government's concerns surrounding any proposals for redundancies arising out of those proposals, which we would not, of course, support. I know that this was welcomed by the RMT at the time. I will reiterate today that I am appalled that network rail employees have had no pay rise for the last two years. It is not acceptable, nor does it make any economic sense for network rail disputes to continue to that end. We can only conclude that that is being done for political or ideological purposes. Based on what was reported over the course of last weekend, that is now clearly bearing fruit. In response to my questioning in committee, the minister told me that the key, indeed, the sole change from nationalisation was that she would be accountable. Does the minister recognise the concerns of people who might think that, in refusing to step into this situation, she is abdicating that accountability? I say to the member that I am accountable. I am here today answering an urgent question. I was here yesterday answering a topical question on rail. I was here the week before answering a question on rail, and the week before that, he has absolute accountability for me and the transport. Minister, please resume your seat. I would just like a bit of calm from all parts of the chamber so that we can hear the answer to the question that the member asked. Minister, please continue. Presiding Officer, as I outlined in response to Mr Simpson, it would not be appropriate for me as minister to be in the negotiating room. No ministers, to my mind, are ever in the negotiating room. It is appropriate in this instance for ScotRail to be in the negotiating room as the employer with our trade union partners. I look forward to reaching a resolution so that we can restore ScotRail's full timetable for the benefit of passengers and staff alike. That concludes the urgent question. We will move on to the next side of business, but we will have a very short pause to allow front bench teams to take their positions.