 The next item of business this afternoon is to double all questions. We start with question number one from Annie Wells. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that the Queen Oeddebeth University hospital faces a repaired bill of up to £50 million. Cabinet Secretary, June Freeman. Reports that the hospital requires repairs of around £50 million are inaccurate and the board does not recognise this figure as it has made clear in public statements. The board is investing £2.75 million in a water treatment plant and upgrades to the hematology oncology ward at the Royal Hospital for Children. There are no other significant investments required in the two new hospitals. However, the Queen Elizabeth university hospital is part of the wider Queen Elizabeth campus, which includes older buildings. As with all these states, maintenance is an ongoing process and the board continues to work through the required maintenance in the older parts of the campus. I thank the minister for her answer, and I appreciate that this, of course, is not an official figure. Although this is understood to have been given by the health board's estates and facilities manager to the corporate management team in January, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde also admitted that problems, as the cabinet secretary stated, with older buildings on the campus would require significant investment. There is undoubtedly a growing list of problems at the Queen Elizabeth and we are hearing of new issues every week. Only last week we saw the publication of the health care improvement Scotland report, which highlighted over 300 outstanding maintenance jobs, as well as there being no current clear ventilation structure. I ask the cabinet secretary to provide details on how much the Scottish Government expects it will cost to fix the infrastructure issue at the hospital and can reassure patients in Glasgow that that will not have a knock-on effect to other services. Let me repeat that the £50 million is not a figure that is not recognised by the board because it is not an accurate figure. It is not a figure that applies to either the Queen Elizabeth University hospital or the Royal hospital for children. It does not apply to the two new hospitals. The campus has a number of older buildings, including neurology and neurosciences, physical disability rehabilitation, clinical genetics pathology, and the board is working through what the maintenance requirements of those buildings are, as you would expect it to do, and where the priorities should lie according to which of those buildings provides patient care, which again is what you would expect it to do. In terms of the 300 outstanding jobs, as we look at what those are, many of those range from what would be basic small-scale maintenance that should be part and parcel of a normal programme of on-going maintenance, everything from fixing taps to light bulbs through to jobs that are about ensuring infection prevention and control. The board has produced a detailed plan in response to the inspectorate's unannounced inspection that I commissioned. I have made clear my view of that inspection report. It is important to put on the record here in this Parliament that the inspection report was very clear that front-line staff were doing all that they possibly could to prevent infection and control it where it arose, that they understood their role, and that they were following all the right patient safety protocols. What was wrong was that issues where they raised them were not being properly heard and addressed. I had the board's annual review yesterday. We went through the detail of their plan. We will continue to monitor very closely what they are doing. When they produce what they believe to be their maintenance requirement for those older buildings, that will be part and parcel of the conversation that we will have with this board as we have with other boards. The key in terms of whether it affects other areas is whether or not the maintenance that is required is required for patient safety and patient care, in which case, obviously, is priority maintenance. I thank the cabinet secretary for her answer. Yes, I have seen her comments on the report as well and I appreciate that. However, the same HIS report also highlighted staff shortages, both cleaners for which we know that there is a 10 per cent vacancy rate for domestic staff, as well as infectious control doctors, who play a crucial role in assessing infection risks presented by the built environment. Will the health secretary outline what urgent action the Scottish Government is taking in order to recruit cleaning staff so that this flagship hospital is fully resourced? As part of the annual review, as I am sure Ms Wells knows, one of the groups of people that I meet—indeed, my ministerial colleagues meet in annual reviews—is the area partnership forum, which has represented on it, all the staff-side trade unions, ARCN and others, and the area clinical forum, which brings together senior clinicians from across all the board's areas of work. In both those forums and those meetings yesterday, we discussed that inspection report. It is clear that greater Glasgow and Clyde in this area carries a higher than acceptable level of unfilled domestic posts. There is a much higher than acceptable level of sickness absence among domestic staff. It would not be too hard to work out why that might be the case. Also, in maintenance staff and greater Glasgow and Clyde, who are the employers and therefore have to take the action to fill those posts, have had a very clear message from me that I expect them to take that action and fill those posts. We will be monitoring that very closely. We will monitor, too, the review of a decision that predates all that by some years to go to a generic maintenance role, as opposed to specific areas of maintenance such as a plumber or a joiner, and so on. We consider whether that generic role really works for them and whether it hampers their recruitment in ways that they would not otherwise expect it to. Therefore, they are engaged in all that activity. I have discussed it with them, with those other two areas, as I have described. We will be monitoring that very closely, and also through the DG for health, looking at all our other boards to assure ourselves that similar issues are not also in those other areas. I have got three more supplementary, relaxed, succinct questions and answers, please. Monica Lennon to be followed by Emma Harper. If not £50 million, can the cabinet secretary say what figure the health board does recognise in terms of the repair bill? In response to the damning report in the Queen Elizabeth, Dr Lewis Morrison, the chair of the BMA in Scotland, said that without the right staff in place, it is hard to see how real improvements can be made. Does the cabinet secretary agree with Dr Morrison? Were staffing levels, building maintenance, cleanliness and infection control causing concern at Scotland's flagship hospital? She will know that people right across Scotland are worried about the rest of our hospitals. Should they be worried, cabinet secretary? As I think that I have already explained, I cannot give the exact figure to Ms Lennon because the health board is working through what requires to be done in those older buildings, exactly how much that would cost and where the priority areas should lie. I am very happy to make that available, as the board will make it public once they have reached that final figure. In terms of what Dr Morrison said, of course I agree with Dr Morrison. It is self-evident that you need to have the right staff in place. We have had those discussions with the BMA. You have to have the right staff in place, with the right skill mix, in order to do the job that we require them to do. The board in those particular areas of maintenance and domestic staff, as I have already said to Ms Wells, are working on that, and we will be monitoring that closely. In terms of other health boards, as I have said, Malcolm Wright, our interim director-general for health, a former chief executive and our chief executive for NHS Scotland, is working directly, along with our chief nursing officer, with the chief executive of all our other health boards, to ensure that, in the specific areas that that inspection report, which I commissioned, has highlighted, that we have the answers from all the other boards in terms of where they sit against those recommendations and against our expectations of them, including their statutory responsibilities. Emma Harper will be followed by Daniel Johnson. Will the cabinet secretary be able to outline what progress has been made in recent years on reducing hospital-acquired infections? Since 2007, across Scotland, there has been an 88 per cent fall in cases of seadiff sale in patients aged 65 and over, and a 93 per cent fall in levels of MRSA. Given that we are talking about greater Glasgow and Clyde, the January figures published on 8 January show that the seadiff infection rates have been reduced there by 85 per cent, and the MRSA rates reduced by 94 per cent, in line with national figures. As we have made clear notwithstanding, the serious difficulties that have been recounted in this chamber in terms of infections in greater Glasgow and Clyde and the very great seriousness of which I take that, the Queen Elizabeth hospital remains on par in terms of infection rates with the rest of Scotland, running at about 4 per cent overall, whereas the Scottish average is 4.2 per cent. It is important to have that as part of the context of those discussions. The much-needed new Edinburgh Children's Hospital now has a new completion date of July, but that comes seven years after the original scheduled date, and a £16 million bill over and above the £150 million budget in order to complete it. Does that, coupled with the issues at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, point to wider problems regarding hospital building and procurement in the NHS in Scotland? It is indeed a wee bit wider than the mark, Presiding Officer. I will do my best to answer it in terms of your principal question. No, I do not think that it does point to wider problems, as you will know. As we would expect NHS Lothian to do, it made sure that some of the lessons coming out of the issues at Queen Elizabeth were being addressed in terms of that new sick kids hospital in Lothian in advance of accepting the handover of that new build to them. I would absolutely expect them to do that. Those matters take time for them to work through, and that, at least in part, describes some of the additional length to the process. It is excellent news that they will take it over from July, and patients will be in there from July. I am very happy to provide the member with additional information, if he would care to ask me specific additional questions. Thank you very much, and that concludes topical questions. We are going to move on now to the next item of business, which is a statement by Fergus Ewing on managing Scotland's fisheries in the future. The cabinet secretary will take questions afterwards. If members would like to ask a question, I would urge them to press their request to speak buttons as