Okay, so hello everyone, I am Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. And I have Abhishek with me. So welcome Abhishek on the channel. So we have one more session on Salesforce Omni Studio Bootcamp. And this is the last session for data adapter scenarios. So this is session number five. And along with this session, like if you go through all five sessions. So one by one, like you will be able to implement all the scenarios that you understood as a concept in Omni Studio Bootcamp season one. Right. So if you have followed all those sessions, and if you follow these sessions, then like theoretically and practically you will become expert in Omni Studio. Okay. So with this note, like I want Abhishek to introduce himself. And then we will start the session. Yeah. So everyone, I hope you all are doing well. So myself Abhishek and I'm working as a Salesforce velocity developer in this community since five plus years now. And I have done some certification around velocity as well as the Salesforce. So some velocity certifications are like our Salesforce industries, certifications like Omni Studio developer industry, CPQ. And also I have one health insurance quoting developer certification as well. And some certification I'm done around Salesforce as well. And I'm a trailer double star ranger as well. So yeah, that's all about. Okay. So after this, like if you want to follow a telegram group where lots of folks are already connected so you can scan this QR code. And here you can find more than 4000 folks who are preparing for Salesforce or maybe already working in some organization. And along with that, like if you want to share any feedback or review, so you can share in the comment section. Okay. Okay. So with this, like, we can start with the scenario implementation. So in previous session, we understood like how we can apply insert operation using data rector load. So today you will learn how we can do update and absurd operations. Okay. So I think we can start. Thank you. So as I mentioned in the previous session for data rector load or data rector post, we have covered all the scenarios for insert operation. In today's session, we're going to see some implementations around update scenarios and absurd scenario where we will be updating a single single object record as well as the related objects as well. And also how we can absurd into the data rector load. There are various techniques by techniques and tricks by that we can absurd any record. So let's just jump on to the practical part and first, the first example that will execute is updating updating an account record with the help of data rector load. So we're going to create a record where we'll say, sorry, we're going to create a data rector and it would be like data rector load for update account records. Is it caught? So if you are following all the sessions, first step that we need to do is we have to select the object, which object you want to update. And in the fields section, you have to get the domain object field mapping. So let's say I want to update the account active field. And it will be mapped with active. And as we all know, whenever we want to update any record into the Salesforce, we have to pass the ID field mapping for it. So like if you're not passing the ID field, and if you want to try to update any record, then it would be not possible because if we do not have any ID, we cannot update any record. In that case, I think that record will be inserted instead of dating, right? Correct. So I mean, what we're going to do is we're going to create one more mapping for ACC ID and it would be mapped with the ID field. So as an input for this data rector, we have to pass ACC active and ACC ID. Okay. And if I go to preview, let's say first is active. Where we're going to say, let's say I want to update the value to yes. Second is ACC ID and ID. We're going to copy it from the any account record. Let's say I'm going to update this account. It was taken some time. So we can do instead here. We'll go to developer console and run a query. Okay. It can't open. Okay. So from the URL, we can get the ID of the record. And if we see the active field for this account right now, this is blank. So after our data rector execution, it should get updated with a yes value. And if I click execute, and if I go back to account and I'll refresh this record. So yes, we can see that the active field is got updated with the yes value. Right. Right. So yeah, this was single record update. Right. Right. So for example, let's say if you want to update multiple account records at the same time that also we can do. So first of all, what we're going to do is we're going to get all the, I mean like from this data rector, we're going to get the account records with their IDs as well. So guys, this is data rector extract. So what Abhishek is doing, he's basically running our data rector extract so that we can have some JSON created and that JSON he will be using for our data rector load. Correct. So and if I'll say I'm going to fetch the mapping for active field as well. So if you see list active, so that we will be knowing that what right now what value these are these records contain. So like no, no, and so yeah, I mean like there is only one record for that activities. Yes. So I'm going to copy this and if I go here and I'm going to paste this all the JSON data over here. And now we have to update the mappings into the field that because the JSON format changed now. So now what we're going to say here is a CCC list colon active. And for the ID, for the ID, what we have to do is a CCC list colon ID. And if I go to preview, so as we can open active is coming into the active underscore underscore C. So we have to create this map. And the ID is into the ID. And if I click execute, it will update all the accounts. And if I go back to the data rector extract and click execute. Oh, let's check into the. Okay. Because what happened the values are here. I mean like whatever value we are passing from the the preview tab that will show into the I mean like that will all that is that is the values that gonna get updated. Right. So we are passing no, no, no.  So this is the part. I mean like these sort of data we always get from the either from Omniscript or flex cards. But right now we are just testing the data rector. That is why we are doing it manually. And now I click and execute. So one question Abhishek. Can't we modify in this input block manually. Yeah, we can do that. Okay. But I mean like I prefer Jason block because it's kind of easier. But we can do from this input block as well. Yeah, definitely. And now if I go to preview and click execute all active should be as right. Right. So this is this is the one for when you want to update bulk bulk records in a single transaction. And now if you go to the third and fourth scenario which is kind of relate similar to each other, we want to update the related related records as well. So for that, what we can do is again, we're going to get one data rector extract from which we can get the data for related records and number four, like a counter contact records. Yeah. Yeah, this parent to child. Yeah, child to parent. Yeah, it would work. I mean, okay. But child to parent. We won't be. Okay. Yeah, that also like account name we can modify. Right. If I click execute here. Yeah, it is giving. So we can apply some filter like account ID not null. I think there is some contact. Okay. It's my bad. It should be added filter. Yeah. And condition where account ID not equals to should work with this. Yeah. So these all accounts we got. Also we can do one thing in the output mapping. We can get the contact ID as well. So that if you want to update contacts, we can do that as well. Contact ID execute. Okay. So as part of output, what we are receiving here, account name, account ID, contact last name and the contact ID. So I'm going to copy this one. And you go to the same. Yeah. Now whatever we modify in this output that will be like in this data after load, whatever we modify in this Jason, it will reflect in the org. Right. Right. So for updating the related record, we're going to create one more ad object of step. And let's say now my output is like, it's kind of like that. So for example, let's say I want to update. So what I'm going to do Sanjay, I'm going to just remove some records from here. Right. We can focus on specific ones. Yeah. So for these two records, what I'm going to do here, or let's say. Maybe you can add something in the account name. Yeah. So here we have two accounts where first is this. And I'm going to add the test for accounting. And for the contact last name, I'm going to do, let's say. Test call. Okay. I think one. So these two curly bases, they're line number nine. If you see. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So we are updating account name and last name. Yeah. Account name and the last name. And if I go to preview, I'm going to paste it over here. So again, we have to update the mappings. So for the account, what we have to do here is account name and all data is coming into the contact node. Contact colon account name. And it should get updated with the name. And for the ID, what we have to do is contact colon. So I think it's account ID, right? And into the contact one. We're going to, first of all, we're going to create the mapping for ID. ID. And the other one is for the last name. So total four mappings will be required. Yeah. Last name. So what will happen? I mean, like in this array, we have to record two objects. So this will execute for twice and separately it will execute the account and all the contact for each. So as we can see, two contacts and two account has been updated. And if I go to again, this data actor. And if I click on execute. So this edge communication become test. Oh, my dive. So this edge communication become test. And this other one is also became test. And if you can see this Rogers became the test con. And for this one as well, the mapping have been updated to test. Right. Yeah, I think it is very simple. We can have Jason and if in Jason, we modify some data. So this we are doing for testing purpose in real time. In data after load data will be coming from either IP omiscript or flex card. And that will be in recent format. So whatever data we will be having basis on that it will work. Okay. So I mean, kind of we have covered this four scenarios for the update. Right. Where we have just hard coded the ID field for all the records. And we are updating the records. Now let's say I don't have the ID field. I mean, this, this is not possible. This is not possible into the apex. The functionality which, which I'm going to explain now. But it is possible into the data actor and how it is possible. It's, so we're going to create another data actor. Before, before that, Abhishek, I have one more question in my mind. So we are, we are putting Jason in the input. So when we will be receiving input from IP omiscript. So do we need any input parameter kind of thing that we implement an extract or extract into the load, like key value pair we need to create, or we will just expect the Jason, whatever mapping we are creating. So if I'm in like answer to your question, Sanjay would be like, so for example, here we, we have created this map, this map colon account. Right. So my question is if I, if I have a Jason, we are ID name and any other field is also included. So what will happen? How it will work. ID. Okay. Other than this ID and name. I'm passing a Jason where three fields are available. Two are this and one is other than this. So there will be no impact. If you're not creating the mapping of it, it will, it will do nothing. Okay. It will be ignored. So whatever mapping we are having here, those will be impacted only. Correct. Okay. And if we, if you go to preview ones. Okay. Okay. So here we don't have any key value pair mapping it, it is totally dependent on the Jason input. Right. Okay. So whenever we will be creating, I mean, like, we will be using this data rector into the IP or open script. Right. So we have to pass the data in this format only. Right. Otherwise, if you pass the data in some other format, then you have to edit the data after according to that format so that it would be compatible. Right. Right. Understood. Yeah. So, yeah. So coming back to the absurd scenario where there is a new feature that have been introduced by data after load where let's say, for example, in your input Jason, you don't have the ID field. Okay. You don't, you don't have any ID field in your input Jason, but still you want to update the data. And if, for example, let's say I want to update the data. If I found the similar name. So for example, I don't have this ID field, but I have this account name and according, according to that account name, what I want to do is I want to update the name of this account, a basis on this account name. If I will be able to find any account with this name, then it should get updated. And if I'm not able to find any sort of account with this name, then it should get inserted automatically. Okay. So instead of ID, other than ID, we are picking any other field. Right. So that sort of functionality is available into a data after load. So if we see the example for this one. So let's say I'm going to call it data after absurd account. So basically the functionality which you are going to explain, it is not available in Apex. It is only available in Datarector. Yeah. I mean, what we can do is, I mean, we can build some logic into the Apex for achieving this sort of functionality, but that would be a custom solution out of the box functionality is only available into the Datarector. Right. So here I'm going to say from the data input, I will not pass any sort of ID for this account. Okay. And let's say I want to update the active field for this account as communications test. Yes. And I'm going to remove this one because we don't need it. And what we're going to do is we're going to open this account and see the actual value for active right now. What is it? We're going to go to accounts. And for the active right now we have done yes value. So from the data after we're going to update it to no. And now the question arises if we do not have the ID field into the input parameter, how we can update so the technique or the trick is you go to your mappings, create the mapping for your account, I mean like account name and here it would be name. And there is a checkbox called absurd key. Okay. If you check this checkbox, okay, so what will happen? Data Raptor will first try and find account with the name of this as communications test. If data Raptor will be able to find the account with this name, then it will update that account. And if data Raptor will not be able to find the account with this name, then data Raptor will create the account with this. Right. So at the back end kind of there are two things are happening. This data Raptor load is I mean like executing a data Raptor extract first, then it is executing the data Raptor load. I mean like we haven't created any sort of data Raptor extract for this one, but at the back end for this data Raptor load, this is happening. So I'm going to create the mapping for this one and I think we enabled that checkbox. So I can see a symbol. Yeah. This one. And there is one more thing. Okay. First we'll execute this one, then we'll see that. And if I go to edge communications and refresh it, you can see it's an owner. Okay. So let me go here. And also you can see into the debug logs as well. It has executed a query first. I mean like if you do a normal data Raptor load for the update or insert, there will be no queries. But as soon as you check this checkbox, the data Raptor will execute the query first and we'll try to get the ID for it at the back end. Okay. Okay. So there is one more checkbox for this absurd thing is required for absurd. So for example, let's say if I have selected this checkbox as well, now what will happen? If I will not pass this mapping into the input parameter, then absurd will never happen. Okay. So although we have the account with this name, but absurd will never happen. It will always answer. Okay. Yeah. So this is yeah. It is required. So it should be there in the JSON. Correct. And there is there is another functionality for this absurd thing. I mean like right now we have checked this checkbox only for one mapping. If you will select any other mapping also and check this checkbox absurd key, then it will create a combination of those two mappings and we'll try to find a unique account with this combination. Okay. So account name and this active if both are same, then only it will absurd otherwise it will insert. Okay. All right. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. I mean like this will be a bit confusing when you will see the session, but if you try to practice yourself, then it would it will make sense to you. So now we have the last last scenario for the data rector load, which is absurd using the lookup. Upset using it is lookup. So when you are upsetting an account or when you are upsetting any sort of record. So first feature we have seen with the ID field, you can update with this checkbox you can absurd. There is another feature also called which is called as is lookup. And what does that mean? So let's say for example, okay. I want to update the contact as well. So give me a second. I'm going to make it to this to contact and in the field parameters remove all the mappings and in the preview we're going to copy this past all of this and let's say I have this and I have this. So basically you can assume that you want to update the contact record but you don't have the account ID and also you don't have the contact ID. Okay. So in that case, what we can do. So for example, now I want to update the last name to test on one for this contact. So what I can do over here is I'll go to fields. First of all, I'm going to create the mapping for the last name for obvious reasons. And after that, I'm going to create a mapping for getting the contact ID.  So what it will do is what I'm going to do is like with this account name, I'm going to get the record ID of contact and how it will happen. So in this account name what I want to do here is okay, sorry, not is lookup. Here I'm going to say which lookup field you want to check is account.name and which field you want to get the ID. So it would be a bit confusing but now what will happen this account name will get passed to this mapping which is account name and then it will execute a query where the query would be like the query would be like it would be like this select ID from contact where account.name is equals to the name which is the name which we are passing. So this is lookup is going to query this one. We are passing the account name and we are querying the contact ID with the help of this account and whatever field we are getting as an output of this query we are mapping with the domain object. Okay. And if I go and execute it it won't devise that. In select it is duplicate record. No, I think duplicate record. So let me delete one. Or maybe we can pick any other account record. Yeah, that also we can do but let's just do this one. But I have only one record. Okay. Just two more seconds. Related IDs. Oh, okay, okay, okay. On this account I have two contacts actually. Okay. So through contact it is searching multiple times. Right. So let's say I'm going to delete this contact for just now. Okay. This is also and now we're going to delete this Sean Forbes and if I go here and I execute it now the contact has been updated and if I go here and if I refresh this so the last name is updated with the test convert. Right. But it is a little bit tricky. Yeah. So you just need to understand understand the concept of inner query. That's all. Yeah. So basically I mean like whatever input you are getting you are passing you are kind of searching and record with the help of that input. Right. So object can be anything. So it should be related to that. So, okay. So basically what what is happening Sanjay here is when we use the is absurd key. Right. So finding the ID value data rector was doing is his job. Right. Now we are doing. Now we are doing that job. So that's the only difference. Yeah. So yeah, I think that's the last scenario for today's session. Okay. Yeah, I think it was good. And I think now we have five sessions where we just focus on the scenario implementation. So it will really help folks. Those like in previous season we we explained very less scenarios. Now in this season we explained all the scenarios. So I think it will brush up their knowledge and it will help experience folks as well. Those who want to like work in industry cloud area. Because only studio is demanding there. Okay. So yeah. So guys if you are following all the sessions, please share a review or feedback. And sometimes like I take a screenshot and I share with Abhishek as well so that he can feel some motivation. And yeah, along with these sessions, like we are doing some in person trainings also. So like here we are we are explaining things, but there might be chances like you are not getting things. So in in SZTS like job readiness training program. Omni studio is a part. Right. So they're like Abhishek is partnering me. So he's also delivering those sessions along with me. So they're like we are we are guiding you if you're if you're having any questions. So immediately we help you to resolve those questions. So if you are good in self-learning, so I think these sessions are enough for you. But if you need some mentor who can guide you, then you can join those job readiness training programs. Okay. So thank you Abhishek for delivering the session. And next week I think we can focus on IP. And after that we can do some projects. Okay. So this is it for today. Thank you.


Thank you the best! The first item of business is portfolio questions. The first portfolio is Covid recovery in parliamentary business. I remind members that questions 1 and 2 are grouped together and I will take any supplementaries on those questions after they have been answered and as ever, if anybody wishes to ask a supplementary I will invite them to press their request of speaker buttons in the relevant question, is on level 1 Clare Baker. To ask the Scottish Government how it is measuring progress on its Covid recovery strategy commitment to improve financial security for low-income households. The Scottish Government has identified a range of high-level indicators that will help to measure progress towards achieving individual outcomes in the Covid recovery strategy. The majority of our outcome indicators are drawn from population surveys or large administrative data sets, which report annually, and which are more measurable than the outcomes themselves. We are working to identify additional intermediate indicators that report more frequently, and can therefore identify and influence real-time trends in advance. In October 2021, the Covid recovery strategy set out a number of actions to address financial security for low-income households in the following 12 to 18 months, including the second benefits take-up strategy. The annual report that was published in October showed that take-up of the job start payment remains far too low at only 29 per cent, with the rate of tribute to low awareness of the benefit and a lack of clarity around eligibility. There are also concerns that those leaving school are unable to access the support. Can the cabinet secretary advise on action under way to ensure that young people on low incomes, moving from a period of sustained unemployment or directly from school into work, are getting the support that they are entitled to? I accept the point that Clare Baker makes that one of the challenges is to ensure that people are fully utilising the benefits to which they are entitled at the moment in life to which they are entitled to that benefit. We take a number of steps, and my colleague the Minister for Social Security has set out some of this information to Parliament previously to raise awareness about individual benefits and to maximise take-up. That is our intention, that is our desire to ensure that that is the case. There will be awareness-raising measures taken. We will obviously look very carefully at the effectiveness of those awareness-raising measures. The Government's marketing strategies generally result in good engagement and good participation, but I will look specifically at the points that Clare Baker raises to identify if there are further actions that we need to take to raise awareness and to boost participation. To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the new report by the Resolution Foundation, stating that the average household will be £2,100 worse off by the end of the next financial year. How ministers across Government are working to prioritise support to low-income households is set out in its Covid recovery strategy. The Scottish Government is prioritising funding to help household finances across Scotland. We are taking action to increase financial security for low-income households, and the emergency budget review confirmed a range of additional support in response to the cost crisis. Those include increasing the Scottish child payment to £25 per week, doubling the fuel and security fund to £20 million, and providing local authorities with additional funding for discretionary housing payments. In total, the Scottish Government has allocated around £3 billion this financial year to contribute towards mitigating the increased cost crisis. Over £1 billion of the support is only available in Scotland with the remainder being more generous than that provided elsewhere in the United Kingdom. I thank the Deputy First Minister for that answer and his long-standing recognition of the impact that the pandemic has had on low-income households. The Covid recovery strategy really has a focus on groups more likely to experience low-income, one such group is families with three or more children. It is correctly acknowledged that our Scottish child payment will be assistance to those families. However, the Deputy First Minister also acknowledged that the UK Government's two-child policy with its important rate clause hinders our efforts and shows that increased powers and social security are necessary to maximise the support that we give to those families. Maureen MacNeill is absolutely correct that the two-child limit can have significant and negative effects on household income, which is why the Scottish Government has not adopted that approach in relation to the Scottish child payment. The families who have more than two children are able to access the Scottish child payment should they be eligible. We are obviously taking measures that try to challenge and tackle the effect of measures taken by the UK Government, which essentially make our challenge even greater as we work to reduce child poverty within Scotland. Our measures have a beneficial effect on child poverty levels in Scotland, and we will continue that relentless focus to support families to boost their household income. Following Glasgow City Council decision last week on community grant funds, a number of organisations, including some of which provide mental health and access to food support, are facing funding cuts and even closure. Given the bleak outlook for households as highlighted for the member for Clydebank and will guide, will the Government ensure that the organisations in Glasgow and elsewhere providing this lifeline support will not be forced to pull out of communities and even face closure when these communities are facing such vital hardship? Obviously, there's a range of organisations that are providing valuable and vital support to individuals within our communities, and the Government wants to make sure that we maximise support to those organisations. I was very candid about this department in setting out the budget in December. There are very significant financial challenges that all public sector organisations face as they wrestle with the cost crisis. However, if we all maintain a focus on supporting those in greatest need, we can do all that we can, or as much as we can, to try to address the financial hardship that individuals face. To ask the Scottish Government whether the Minister for Parliamentary Business plans to propose the scheduling of time to consider legislation to end sex by as legal impunity as part of the business for the current parliamentary year. Details of future legislation will be announced in the programme for government in the normal way. Our policy in relation to prostitution, which includes considerations around the purchase of sex, has currently been taken forward through a framework for Scotland, which will seek to challenge men's demands for prostitution and support those impacted. I thank the minister very much for that response. Yesterday, the cross-party group on human trafficking heard from Valiant Richie, the OSCE's special representative and co-ordinator for combating trafficking in human beings. In this, Mr Richie emphasised that full criminalisation of the purchase of sex is by far the most effective legislative approach to tackling human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Given that this unrelenting sexual exploitation of women and children is on-going and that we have power to effect real change here, does the minister agree that this devolved matter should be treated with urgency in this parliamentary session and that space should, hopefully, be made for further parliamentary engagement? I agree with Bill Kidd that this is an extremely important issue. Last December, as part of the 16 days of activism to end violence against women and girls, the Parliament reaffirmed that there is no place for sexual exploitation in Scotland. I am currently working with ministers to agree that the upcoming legislative programme will continue to be kept informed by the lead minister as the work progresses. Following on from last night's human trafficking cross-party group, it was clear that countries that did not hold sex buyers accountable for their abuse were attractive destinations for traffickers. We also heard from Mr Richie about the clear targeting of Ukrainian refugees by traffickers and exploiters to the sex industry, making the issue even more urgent. Can I ask about the clear timescales as to when legislation to hold sex buyers to account will be brought forward? In the meantime, what steps the Scottish Government is taking to protect Ukrainian refugees and other vulnerable groups? As I said to Mr Kidd in my answer previously, I understand how important it is as an issue and how we move forward with it. It is also extremely important. As I mentioned, as we are currently working towards year 3's legislative programme, discussions will be on-going with other ministers with regard to that. I will ensure that the questions that have been asked here today are brought up when I have my bilateral meeting with that portfolio. Question 4, Natalie Donne. Who joins us remotely? To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact that rising inflation could have on its ability to deliver on the priority outcomes set out in the Covid recovery strategy. Presiding Officer, the financial situation, including high levels of inflation, is particularly challenging given the absence of financial powers to compensate for those factors. The Scottish Government has prioritised spending that supports those who need it most, guided in part by the principles of the Covid recovery strategy. Last year's emergency budget review and the 2023-24 budget provide funding that helps families, backs business and protects the delivery of public services. The Scottish Government is committed to making progress towards the shared Covid recovery strategy outcomes in partnership with local government and other partners, and we will continue to prioritise spending that is targeted to support those in most need. Natalie Donne. I thank the Deputy First Minister for that answer. One of the key priorities within the recovery strategy is financial security for low-income households. It has been announced this morning that inflation is still at an eye-watering 10.5 per cent, five times higher than the chancellor's target, with basic food items such as milk and cheese increasing by up to 46 per cent. The Deputy First Minister agrees that our ability to deliver on the Covid recovery outcomes is being made much more difficult by the Tories' economic incompetence. I was explicit with Parliament in the budget statement in December just the scale of the challenge that is posed by the economic turbulence that has been experienced since the start of the war in Ukraine, but exacerbated by the twin effects of Brexit and the aftermath of the ludicrous mini-budget in early September. The presence of inflation in our economy at the very high levels that is currently faced with an even more acute pressure on low-income households because many of the foodstuffs upon which low-income households depend have increased disproportionately and higher than the headline rate of inflation, those issues are of significant challenge. That is why the Government has prioritised the increase in the Scottish child payment to the extent that we have. That is why I also announced an uprating of benefits under our control by 10.1 per cent to do all that we can to try to address the difficult circumstances that low-income households face. Question 5 was not lodged, so question number 6, Katie Clark. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will review its Covid recovery strategy in light of rising Covid-19 infection rates. Presiding Officer, the Covid recovery strategy focuses on reducing systemic inequalities in reforming public services. The Scottish Government remains committed to this work and there are therefore no plans to review the strategy. The Scottish Government remains alert to the on-going threat posed by Covid-19. Public Health Scotland has worked in collaboration with the Scottish Government, local government and other partners to meet the commitments in the Covid-19 strategic framework update to develop and publish an outbreak management plan. We continue to utilise this, apply careful judgment and take all relevant factors into account to ensure that responses are appropriately targeted and the necessary resources prioritised to deal with the effects of rising Covid-19 infection rates. The Scottish Government ended free testing last April, which has led to some of the poorest in society being priced out of accessing lateral flow tests, which now cost an average of £9 for a pack of five. The decision is at odds with the aims of the Covid-19 recovery strategy to support low-income households. With current high Covid rates, will the Scottish Government review its strategy and explore the feasibility of reintroducing free tests? The Government has taken a range of measures to ensure that we have the available intelligence to support us in the management of the Covid-19 pandemic. Obviously, with the current rates estimated to be at approximately one in 25, we are facing a significant challenge. The issues are regularly reviewed by the cabinet and the ministerial group on health issues that is chaired by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and the resilience discussions that are chaired by the First Minister, which are taking place on a weekly basis. I understand exactly the point that Katie Clark puts to me and I understand and accept its significance, but I have to say that, in the absence of consequential funding to provide for this from the United Kingdom Government, we would have to consider funding of such approaches from the existing resources available to the national health service in Scotland. As Katie Clark will know, we have taken some very significant decisions to boost the funding available to the health service by increasing tax for higher earners in the next financial year, but we would have to wrestle with that question as part of the overall financing of our public services. I will consider further the issue that Katie Clark puts to me, because it is a serious issue, and I assure her that those questions will be regularly considered as part of the management groups that I talked about, who are looking at the effect of the pandemic on our public services. An important tool in tackling rising Covid infection rates is the booster vaccination programme, which is currently being rolled out. I know of several constituents who have contacted me who are in the over-50s age group who have not received appointment letters for a booster vaccination. Although they are able to access drop-in vaccination centres, which are a very welcome resource, often having the prompt and reminder from an appointment letter is what encourages people to attend. Does the Deputy First Minister know how widespread this issue is and what more might be done to make sure that over-50s and those in other vulnerable groups are reminded of the need to get a booster? I reassure Mr Fraser that the update rates are really quite high. There is an excess of 70 per cent for the eligible population. I have in my mind 77 per cent, but I do not have that number in front of me, but I will tomorrow morning when I am at the Covid-19 recovery committee, so I shall perhaps be able to give them a more definitive answer by that time. Those are really quite high levels of vaccination uptake. Obviously, we have taken an approach to awareness raising, which is designed to maximise the participation in those programmes. As I said, there are very high levels of uptake, and we should continue to do that. I think that the drop-in facilities that are available are handy and convenient for people, but I will consider further the point that he puts to me about some written communication, because it is in all of our interests if we have a highly vaccinated population. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its longer-term cross-government plan for Covid-19 recovery. The Covid recovery strategy contains over 70 actions that will support people across Scotland and particularly those most affected during the pandemic. It focuses on increasing financial security for low-income households, enhancing the wellbeing of children and young people and creating good-green jobs and fair work. I co-chair the Covid recovery strategy programme board alongside the COSLA president. Together with our partners, we oversee recovery activity, and at our meeting in September, attendees noted the expectations of the Covid recovery programme that will be delivered. The board is meeting again next week, and minutes are published on the Scottish Government website. I thank the Deputy First Minister for his answer and note the 70 actions in the recovery plan, but on the important issue of Covid booster vaccinations, can the Deputy First Minister advise what the current thinking is as regards a further programme of such booster vaccinations later this year and indeed in the years to come? Annabelle Ewingrys is an important issue, and I have just rehearsed on my answer to Murdoff Fraser. It is important to encourage uptake of the vaccination programme, and we are encouraged by the levels of uptake that are taking place, but I would encourage anybody who still is in the eligible population groups and has not been vaccinated to take up the opportunity of that vaccination. Our approach on vaccination is based on the clinical advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, and I would expect the JCVI to consider the question that Annabelle Ewingrys put to me about the provision of further booster vaccinations in 2023 or in later years, and to provide advice to the Government. Obviously, we stand ready to implement that advice. In the interim, I would simply reiterate that the Winter 22 booster programme campaign remains open until the end of March, and appointments are still available, and I would encourage anybody who is eligible who is yet to be vaccinated to come forward. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what Government business it plans to bring forward for the current parliamentary year. Proposals for Government business and Parliament are agreed by the Scottish Cabinet, subject to consideration by the parliamentary bureau, and in turn approval by the Parliament. So, as the year progresses and things move on, this will be the process. Can I thank the minister for his response? There are increasing concerns that the Scottish Parliament's processes are inadequate when it comes to the legislative scrutiny of the executive. For that reason, I intend to bring forward a member's bill on parliamentary reform. Can I take this opportunity to invite the Scottish Government to work constructively with me on this project? In the first instance, will the minister meet me so that we can discuss those issues together? Although I do not agree with some of the points that the member made, I am quite happy to meet him and discuss things as we move forward. I will give some examples of some of the times where there seems to be an idea that legislation does not get time to scrutinise legislation in here. When we had the recent gender recognition reform bill, the Government listened to concerns of the committee and agreed to propose a deadline on understanding that additional time would be agreed if a larger number of amendments came in and expected. In the national care service, the bureau agreed a longer stage 1 deadline following feedback from the committees. When we were hunting dogs, the rain committee recently requested that stage 2 of hunting with dogs was extended by one week, which effectively created a stage 2.5, and revised the deadline in order to do that. On the whole, I believe that we do work with those in opposition in other parties and with the committee system to ensure that scrutiny is there for the Scottish Government. On the subject of fixed links, during the 2021 Scottish Parliament campaign, the First Minister told local media in Shetland that she was, and I quote, not just open to it but actually quite enthusiastic about seeing if we can make the case. But the Scottish Government has not scheduled a debate on the matter yet, so will the minister contemplate the debate about fixed links and tunnels so that the case can be made and help to reverse depopulation and save costs in the long-term for internal ferry replacement? I take on board what Ms Wishart said. Seeing as normally my answer would be speak to your business manager, but in your case, I will make a special allowance and I will bring it up to the bureau and the bureau myself at the bureau. Thank you very much, minister. That concludes portfolio questions on Covid recovery in parliamentary business. It's time to move to the next portfolio, which is finance and economy. Again, I would encourage members wishing to ask a supplementary to press the request-to-peat buttons during the relevant question. There is awful lot of interest in this series of questions, so I would make a plea for brevity in questions and indeed in responses. I call first question number one, Annie Wells. Thank you, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide all hospitality businesses with 75 per cent business rates relief in 2023-24. Having set out a strong non-domestic rates package in the draft budget, the Scottish Government has no current plans to introduce any further reliefs. As a result of that package, around half of properties in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors in Scotland will already pay no rates in 2023-24, due to the most generous small business relief package in the UK. The budget statement also delivered the number one ask of the business community by freezing the poundage, delivering the lowest poundage in the UK for the fifth year in a row. Next year, hospitality businesses in Wales and to the south will receive 75 per cent business rates relief, but Scottish hospitality businesses are getting no extra relief from the SNP. 100,000 Scottish businesses are being shortchanged. They are missing out on more than 200 million pounds of support. How will our economy recover when Scottish businesses are worse off than companies across the rest of the UK? As I outlined in my original answer to Ms Wells, we already provided the most generous package of rates relief for businesses anywhere within the UK, including freezing the poundage, making it the lowest rate for the fifth year in a row. The reality is that we have to take decisions in the round when setting our budget and any additional revenue to be supplied for rates relief would have to come from a corresponding decrease in another area of government. If there is a particular area of funding that Ms Wells wishes to see reduced to support non-domestic rates relief, I am happy to have that discussion. There are a number of supplementaries. I want to get them all in, but they will have to be brief, as will the responses. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I welcome the decision to freeze the rates poundage for going £308 million of income while ensuring that 100,000 businesses pay no rates at all. Can the minister say how much it would cost to provide 75 per cent rates relief for all hospitality businesses? Has Ms Wells or any other Tory MSP suggested from wearing the Scottish budget that those resources should be found or if taxes should be increased to pay for it? It would cost an estimated £85 million to provide hospitality properties to 75 per cent non-domestic rates relief capped at 110,000 per business in 2023-24. As I already mentioned in my answer to Annie Wells, our package of reliefs, which is worth an estimated £744 million, will see around half of the properties in the retail hospitality and leisure sectors benefit from 100 per cent small business bonus scheme relief alone in 2023-24. As I said, if any party wants to enhance the relief package and offer in the budget, then I would welcome hearing the very alternative fully funded proposals. Short of a discount, we know that retail businesses pay a fifth of non-domestic rates when they only account for 10 per cent of the economy. Short of that discount, surely there is a case to rebalance and recalibrate between sectors based on their economic contribution? As the members are aware, the process of setting the rateable value is one carried out independently by the Scottish assessors. The point that you touch is on though is a broader concern that I appreciate members will have with the way in which non-domestic rates operate, namely the lack of a correlation often between rateable value and the economic performance of a business. That is a matter that prompts requests for fundamental forms for non-domestic rates relief reform or non-domestic rates reform more generally. Those are discussions that I am happy to have, but that is a complex area. As I said, my door is always open to any member who wishes to discuss this in more detail. Hospitality businesses in Shetland were grateful for the support that was given to them during the Covid pandemic, but many are now feeling left behind. What more can the minister do to help island businesses through this difficult winter? As I would say, we provide a range of support through the relief packages that we have provided through the non-domestic rate system, including rural rates relief as well. As I said, we have to take decisions in the round. The package of support that we are providing on non-domestic rates, which applies Scotland-wide, is one that is the most generous in the UK. As I said previously in response to other members' questions, if there are specific proposals that members have for reform of non-domestic rates, I am happy to discuss that. If there are specific reliefs that they would like to say, I would welcome conversation, but it has to be with fully funded, costly proposals. Unite the unions, get me home safely campaign, calls on councils to make free, safe transport home for late-night workers a requirement for new and extended alcohol licences. Some councils such as North Ayrshire and East Dunbartonshire have backed the campaign. Will the Scottish Government explore making the provision of safe transport home for late-night workers a condition of future support for hospitality businesses? The issue of conditionality around rates relief has been raised in a number of different contexts. There are complexities to that, but I would be happy to discuss with the member in more detail. 2. Sandra Scolhoney I apologise for arriving during the session. To ask the Scottish Government whether it has fully considered the economic consequences of its presumption against new oil and gas exploration both to workers within the industry and to the wider economy as a whole. The oil and gas sector and the highly skilled workforce have long been at the forefront of energy innovation and have an important role to play in our energy transition. However, as we all know, the North Sea Basin is mature and production will inevitably decline. The draft energy strategy and just transition plan draws and established industry data, as well as independent work and mission from consultants that analyses the energy and economic contributions of the North Sea and wider oil and gas sector in Scotland. That includes production forecasts and the expected growth of Scotland's low-carbon energy sectors and impact of the energy transition on employment and the wider economy. As a responsible Government, we have set out a pathway to ensure a fair and just transition. Any other approach would only serve to put jobs and their economy at risk. 2. Sandra Scolhoney The oil and gas communities of the north-east of Scotland will be devastated at the disregard shown to them by this SNP Government. The sector is highly important to our economy and even in our just transition away from fossil fuels, which is estimated to take 25 years or more, it will be a necessary component of our ongoing energy infrastructure. Does the cabinet secretary accept that halting oil and gas production would simply increase our reliance on foreign imports of oil and gas, propping up questionable regimes, which will only amplify and relocate the greenhouse emissions that we seek to reduce, as well as damaging domestic job creation in Scotland? First, this is a question about future exploration, not existing oil and gas production, as the member seems to suggest. Is the case that around a third of 1999 levels will be produced in the North Sea by 2035 and less than 3 per cent, I will repeat that, less than 3 per cent of the 9090 peak by 2050? Therefore, we have a responsibility as the energy strategy fulfills by looking to the 2030s, the 2040s and future generations and their energy needs and the needs for jobs to look at what we can do to make sure that we meet our responsibilities as a country and not just focus on today's headlines. In terms of jobs, the research from RGU and other institutions, but particularly RGU in this case, has said that it is estimated that the number of jobs will rise from 19,000 in terms of low-carbon jobs in 2019 to 77,000 jobs by 2050, an actual increase in energy jobs in North East Scotland and elsewhere. I have to say to the member, as someone who represents a constituency with many oil and gas jobs and indeed spends a lot of time through my ministry of responsibilities in North East Scotland, I am very familiar with the views of the oil and gas sector. And the fact that the oil and gas majors are investing heavily in and are very committed to the energy transition. I think that the Scottish Tory party has to make up its mind, but what does it want to transition to because we want to transition to clean energy for Scotland and tackling climate change? We do need, I think, slightly briefer responses about a supplementary Audrey Nicholl. Thank you, Presiding Officer. In Prime Minister's questions last week, Rishi Sunak committed to supporting the North East energy sector. Does the minister agree with me that the Prime Minister should put his money where his mouth is, match the Scottish Government's £500 million just transition fund and stop delaying investment into the ACORN CCS project, which to date has been left completely in the lurch? It is very good points. Of course, the UK Government has extracted over £300 billion and the North Sea should match the Scottish Government's £500 million for North East Scotland and Murray's just transition fund. Likewise, in terms of the previous question about the economic assessment of our energy plans, what is the UK Government's economic assessment being of refusing to take forward the ACORN project that would create up to 20,000 new jobs in Scotland, many of which would be in North East Scotland? To ask the Scottish Government what the continuing impact of Brexit is on Scotland's key economic sectors. It is clear now that Brexit is holding back our public services and scaring our economy, leaving the EU has made it harder, for example, to recruit doctors and nurses for our NHS. In the latest research by Nuffield Trust shows that, without Brexit, the UK would have had over 4,000 more specialist doctors from the EU. Meanwhile, exports of some Scottish industries have plummeted due to Brexit trade barriers. Just look at fruit and vegetables, where EU exports have been slashed by half since 2019. That said, the Scottish Government will continue to support our businesses through our export growth plan, supporting Scotland's export performance and enabling it to outpace the UK's international goods exports, for example, up to 16.7 per cent in 2022, compared with the first nine months of 2019, when UK figures were only up 2.4 per cent. Does the minister agree that Brexit was never a one-off event or vote, but it is having a continuous negative effect on our economy with no apparent positives? We also know that businesses that export are more likely to pursue innovations, so with Scottish exporters continuing to face growing challenges trading with countries in the EU, that continuing Brexit effect will also impact on innovations in our economy for the future. Does he agree that the longer Scottish businesses remain out of the EU, the more damaged Brexit will bring to Scotland's economy and that the only political route to full benefits of trading in the single market with the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats now both embracing Brexit is for Scotland to become an independent state and join the European Union? As the member correctly identifies, Scotland's economy will continue to suffer while we remain outside of the European single market because of a hard Brexit that we did not vote for. Only through the full powers of independence will Scotland replicate the success of comparable countries that are more prosperous, more productive and fairer than the UK. 4. Joe FitzPatrick Thank you to ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on any investment arising from the Tay cities deal. The Tay cities regions deal has had a successful first two years since it was signed in December 2020, with over £70 million of government funding already received by regional partners. The partnership is currently preparing the latest annual report that will outline the achievements to the end of September last year, which we anticipate including securing more than £120 million of investment into the region. 5. Joe FitzPatrick I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. The Tay cities deal is delivering vital support to the regions economy in these challenging times, supporting skills development, providing training and job opportunities and driving additional investment into the area. Can the cabinet secretary say more about investments in Dundee specifically and how that is helping to support local employment and drive innovation? The Dundee, Mr FitzPatrick's constituency, has benefited significantly from the Tay cities deal. The cities universities are benefiting with £25 million in the Scottish Government towards enhanced infrastructure for life sciences innovation at the University of Dundee and support for the refurbishment that led to the cyberquarter development at Abertau University. That opened in June and aims to support 150 businesses in the cyber security sector, which is absolutely vital in the developments in the global economy. In the other end of the city, the investment from the Scottish Government around the Michelin Scotland investment park is significant in supporting the development of new opportunities. If Mr FitzPatrick will forgive me the developments that the James Hutton institute in my constituency, which is very close to the boundary of the city of Dundee, is welcome into the bargain. I agree with Mr FitzPatrick about the value of the Tay cities deal. In line with the rest of the developed world, we have seen substantial construction price inflation over the last two years since the Tay cities deal was signed. When I visited the James Hutton institute in December, it raised the issue with me as to whether the funds that have been allocated in the deal would now cover the construction costs of the very welcome major infrastructure build that I have to commit to. Has the Scottish Government done any work looking at whether the funds allocated in 2020 will now be sufficient to meet those increased costs? This is an issue that I raised in my budget statement to Parliament in December, because the issues that Mr Fraser correctly highlights will undoubtedly put pressure on those long-term projects. For example, projects that had an estimated cost in the benign climate of 2020 are now in a very significantly different position with the effect of hyperinflation. Obviously, we hope that there will be reductions in inflation, but I have to say quite openly to Parliament that there will be challenges about upgrading projects that have been affected by inflationary costs, because it is a problem that we are wrestling with right across Government. We will do our level best in the capital programme to address that and to ensure that projects are able to be taken forward. However, there will be strains in city deals, which are long-term growth deals because of the effect of inflation. I'm briefly Willie Rennie. St Andrews University has delivered its part of the Tay cities deal at the new Eden campus in Guard Bridge, but it burst them with ideas about what to do next. It wants to crack on with the next phase of the Tay cities deal. Has the minister had discussions with the UK Government about that next phase, and if not will he start them? We're certainly open to further discussions on those questions. I compliment St Andrews University on the development at Guard Bridge. I drove past it the other week there on my latest in Andrews, so it's looking very good and it's a very significant enhancement of the area and also a very sustainable proposition that has been developed. We've not had further discussions with the UK Government about a further round of city deals. Mr McKee will be in the Presiding Officer's constituency on Friday for the signing of the Islands deal, which is the latest of the deals that are involved in the island communities. However, we are very happy to have further discussions with the UK Government on those questions. He'll be afforded a very warm welcome. To ask the Scottish Government how it takes the complexity of human behaviour into account during financial policy decision making. Mr Tomarth. The Scottish Government is aware of the risks and benefits arising from behavioural responses to policy proposals and actively works with stakeholders such as the HMRC to monitor and continually improve the evidence base to help inform policy development. The Scottish Fiscal Commission is responsible for producing independent forecasts of devolved tax and social security spending for the Scottish budget and for making judgments about the scale of any behavioural responses and their fiscal implications in those forecasts. Michelle Tomarth. I thank the minister for that response. He'll be aware that the Finance and Public Administration Committee has launched an inquiry into approaches to decision making in Government. One key aspect is to fully understand how to assess risk. Does the Scottish Government have an established approach to the disaggregation of risk and, if so, can he outline their principles? Welcome and recognise the committee's work in this particular area and its continuing interest in this area when I have been before the committee. I am sure that that will make a valuable contribution to the subject, including the area of risk management. The Scottish Government has a robust risk management framework to support the identification, assessment management and reporting of risks during the development and delivery of policy within each portfolio and across Government. That helps to promote best practice for the identification and assessment of risk in the development and delivery of policy. This framework aligns to the principles of risk management that are outlined in the Scottish Public Finance Manual, which is publicly available. Thank you. At the same committee, the minister said in answer to a question to John Mason that he understands the importance of the private rented sector when it comes to the mobility of the working population. Will the Scottish Government address the concerns of landlord associations and some local authorities that the proposed increase in the tax on the additional dwelling supplement, which comes at the same time as the rent freeze, will cause some landlords to exit the market there by threatening the supply of private rented accommodation, which is so crucial to the economy, especially in the rural areas? As I said in some length committee yesterday, we take decisions on fiscal policy in the round. Yes, the policy and tension behind the additional dwelling supplement is clear. It is to provide support for first-time buyers, but it also has a clear objective on raising revenue. With regard to the specific point made with regard to local government, as I said, the issues there and the current lack of parity with RSLs is something that has been considered through the ADS review, and I will be in a position to update Parliament on the outcome of that review soon. To the Scottish Government, will it provide an update on its response to an announcement from Amazon that it is to close its guru site? I spoke with Amazon last week, but I was very disappointed that there was no clarity on the rationale for the potential closure in guru. I have since written to their US headquarters to seek further clarification on those points and to seek a conversation with those behind the company's operational decision. I have had a response back from Amazon in the UK, and I am about to reply back to that, because, to my mind, that does not go far enough in terms of information that it is providing to us. It is vital that we access the detail here in order to explore all the viable options and seek to secure an alternative outcome to Amazon's decision to close that site. I urged Amazon during that meeting to engage with local trade unions. At my request, the company has agreed to engage with the Inverclyde task force to better understand the potential impact on the local economy. To support the workforce, I hope that the minister will continue to urge Amazon to think again and also seriously explore with them options to relocate locally if the current site is deemed unsuitable, working alongside the GMB and the council. I know that the minister as a member of the Inverclyde social economic task force understands the long-standing challenges that this community faces, yet, already this year, 300 jobs look set to go at Amazon. Ports from the Clyde have lost out on free port status to the east and north, undermining their competitiveness.  Given all that, does the minister share my concern that the Inverclyde economy has been undermined and what action will the Government therefore take to support the local economy and ensure that the area gets a fair deal? We are focused on all parts of Scotland in making sure that we maximise our full potential. As the member knows, I engage closely with members and others in Inverclyde. I look forward to the next task force meeting on Monday of next week, which I will be attending in person to take forward discussions on how we can work together to ensure that the economy in Inverclyde is maximised to its full potential. Of course, there is a range of support, including regional projects and others that the Scottish Government supports and funds to support the development of the economy locally. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the comments by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce regarding the budget 2023-24 that it represents a clear disadvantage for Scotland's businesses and workers. I do not agree with that assessment in arriving at our income tax policy for 2023-24. We have sought to carefully balance the need to raise revenue with the impact on households, businesses and the wider economy at the current time. The majority of people in Scotland will still pay less income tax than if they lived elsewhere in the UK, and our income tax policy will enable us to make additional investment in the national health service by exceeding the health resource burden at consequentials from the UK Government. In addition, Scotland offers the most comprehensive social contract in any part of the UK, making Scotland an attractive place to live, work, study and do business. As I highlighted with the cabinet secretary at committee, this morning the tourism and hospitality sectors are facing severe pressure at the moment, but the budget provides little comfort. As Annie Wells suggested, the sector south of the border will receive a 75% discount on rates next year, while Scotland's Government, despite receiving hundreds of millions of pounds of Barnett consequentials to deliver the same, has chosen not to. Scottish Beer and Pub Association says that it puts Scottish pubs at a significant disadvantage. The Scottish hospitality group said that the budget offered nowhere near enough to see the sector through and that many small businesses will not survive. The Scottish Tourism Alliance expressed the disappointment of its members and warned that 23% of Scotland's tourism businesses were in survival mode. If the cabinet secretary will not offer the same to Scotland's struggling sector, will he at least lobby his ministerial colleagues to roll back some of the extra and necessarily regulatory burdens, such as the delayed short-term let's licensing and deposit return schemes that they intend to push on this already struggling sector? In a sense, Mr Halcro Johnston answers his own question. The Government has already delayed the introduction of the short-term licensing scheme to provide more time for sector to adjust for that. The Minister for Public Finance set out in response to Annie Wells earlier in the session that about half of the retail tourism and hospitality businesses will benefit from 100% rates relief because we have a different small business bonus scheme in Scotland to the rest of the United Kingdom. Rather than just saying to us that we should replicate what goes on in England, if we replicated what went on in England on the small business bonus scheme, lots and lots of companies would have to start paying business rates and Mr Halcro Johnston is not offering that. Finally, I come to the point here that Mr Halcro Johnston is asking me, according to the figures that Mr Arthur put on the record, to commit to spending another £78 million on business rates relief. If Mr Halcro Johnston wants me to spend £78 million on business rates relief, he has to have the honesty to come to Parliament and explain where the money is coming from. Already his colleagues are opposing the tax changes that I have made, so that is another £125 million or so that they have to find. The Conservatives cannot come here and ask me to spend more money when they will not tell me where the money is coming from. I am determined to get our final question in. In question 8, Pam Duncan-Glancy. To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to support businesses in key sectors of Glasgow's economy. The Scottish budget for next year will deliver the lowest non-domestic rates poundage in the UK for a fifth year in a row and maintains a package of reliefs worth an estimated £744 million. That will benefit many businesses in Glasgow. In addition, in Scotland's industry leadership groups have played an important part in developing sectoral recovery plans that ILOG chairs around table facilities across industry conversations and actions focused on areas of greatest strategic importance for industry. Many of those sectors are represented across Glasgow's wide and diverse economy. Scottish Enterprise has invested £25 million in the Glasgow city innovation district and is a founding member of the Clyde Gateway Urban Regeneration Company. I thank the minister for that response and one sector that has not been mentioned are back cab drivers in Glasgow. Black cab drivers in Glasgow have been given until June this year to meet low emissions own targets. Most cannot afford the £61,000 for new cars that would comply and on Friday the energy savings trust said that there was no money left for grants to retrofit vehicles and they stopped accepting applications from yesterday. Given the deadline to meet low emissions on standards as June, how on earth are cab drivers expected to meet the requirements and will the Scottish Government commit to providing more financial support and grants to prevent major job losses in the black cab trade in Glasgow? The Scottish Government has made £7.2 million available to support funding for small businesses, including taxi operators and households since 2019. There is support available for retrofit of existing vehicles. The Scottish Government has offered grant funding of up to 80 per cent of the capital costs of that and that is the most generous offer of its kind in the UK. This year, record numbers of taxes have been retrofitted as a consequence of that. Grant funding is available and is providing over £2,000 per vehicle, disposed of, where existing vehicles have been disposed. That is open to any micro-businesses in taxes, which complies the most applications for that in the last financial year. Glasgow City Council has a discretionary mechanism for eligible taxi operators to receive a temporary exemption to the LEZ beyond enforcement date of June 2020. That will give taxi operators additional time to comply, but I am very happy to take any other points that the member wants to raise separately in discussion and to raise those with Glasgow City Council. With apologies to those who I was not able to call for supplementaries, I would make the play that responses, particularly from ministers in terms of descriptive responses, need to be shorter and allow more of those supplementaries in. We now need to move to the next item of business. 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When you feel like you're the narcissist, when you feel like you're the one who is at fault, when you feel like you can't do anything right, you've done some things that you're not proud of, and it's causing you to question if you are the narcissist. You assume that someone who is not a narcissist would not do the things that you have done, but this isn't always true. It is very common for victims of narcissistic abuse to question if they are the narcissist. The reason for this is because the narcissist provokes us to react to them. They like it when we get mad. It gives them the opportunity to portray us as the abuser. They push you to react to them. They push you to engage in dysfunctional behavior, and this then makes you question if you are the abuser. If you are the narcissist, this is what the narcissist depends on. They depend on you focusing on your reaction to their abuse, rather than the abuse itself. It gives them the ability to abuse you while also shifting the blame onto you. It helps them to dodge the responsibility for their actions, and it also gives them supply when they can blame you for something that they have done.  It makes them feel like they're right. It makes them feel like they're winning. You might feel guilty for some of the things you've done. You might have shouted at the narcissist. You might have thrown things at them. You might have said some mean things to them. Maybe you have even physically attacked the narcissist. Of course, it's wrong to engage in those behaviors, and we should avoid justifying it, and instead, try to respond better in the future. If your actions were simply in reaction to the abuse, you will recognize that your behavior was wrong, and you will feel guilty for engaging in that kind of behavior. You may even question if you are the narcissist. The narcissist is not going to do that. They hate acknowledging anything negative about themselves. They enjoy shifting the blame onto other people. It helps them to avoid any responsibility for their actions. It makes them feel like they're not the problem. If you try to engage in a healthy argument with the narcissist, it will not work. When you are in an argument with them, they will shout and scream at you. They will insult you.  This is abusive behavior, and it doesn't matter how peaceful you might be. It doesn't matter if you're not angry. It doesn't matter if you're able to tolerate their problems without becoming annoyed or anxious. You can maintain your composure and avoid having a emotional reaction. But it will not result in a positive outcome. When you are in a healthy relationship, and you act in a healthy manner, naturally, this will bring about a healthy positive outcome. But when you're in a relationship with a narcissist, it doesn't matter how healthy your behavior is. It doesn't matter how peaceful you might be or how tolerant you are of their problems. Because the problem has nothing to do with you. Nothing you change about yourself is going to affect the outcome of the situation. The problem is within the narcissist. So for there to be a healthier, more positive outcome, the narcissist would have to change their behavior. And this is how you know that you're not the narcissist. If you avoid having emotional reactions and you practice composure, yet nothing ever gets resolved. That's how you know that it isn't you. Because healthy positive behavior will always bring about a healthy positive outcome. Unless you are dealing with a narcissist or toxic person, when you try to be healthy or positive within a narcissist, it just makes things worse. It only makes them more mad. Because it reminds them that you are not the problem. It reminds them that they are the ones who are at fault.  And that's when they will usually start to calm down. And play the victim role. But when you're calm and relaxed and you're trying to resolve the situation, it just makes them more mad. They become more abusive, more out of control. Because it becomes obvious to them that they are the ones with the problem. Even though they may not openly admit it to you, they do recognize that they have a problem. And that is why it makes them so mad when you do not react to their abuse. It makes it very difficult for them to shift the blame onto you. When you practice composure and you remain calm and relaxed despite how they're treating you, it becomes extremely obvious to them that they are the problem. But they can't just end the argument.  So instead, they prolong the abuse. They extend the duration of the argument. Or they might give you the silent treatment.   It is perfectly normal and healthy for you to feel remorse after you have reacted to their abuse. It is perfectly understandable. And this is another key indicator that you're not the narcissist because the narcissist would never feel any remorse for their actions. They have to portray you as the problem. So they can never accept that they have done something wrong. But please do not feel like you're a bad person. You're not. You were just reacting to their abuse. Anyone would have reacted in a similar way if they were constantly pushed and provoked. When the narcissist constantly engages in this kind of behavior and they keep pushing and provoking you until you finally react to them. It increases your sensitivity to the abuse. It makes you easily hurt, worried or offended because you've been trained over a long period of time that when you get angry, the narcissist becomes calm. It has trained your subconscious to be more sensitive to the abuse so that the threat will stop faster. The narcissist calms down because it relieves their suffering. It validates their false image. They can't do anything wrong. You are the one who has the problem. When you finally react and start acting the way that they do. They really start to believe that you are the one who has the problem. Regardless of everything that they have said or done before you finally reacted to them.   And they will claim that you need help.  You know that you wouldn't normally react in this way. But now it seems to be happening more often. Now you seem to be coming more and more like the narcissist. It's almost like they are training you to become the narcissist. Every time you react, it creates more and more evidence that you are the one with the problem. And that is why you are now questioning a few other narcissists. You might even be watching my videos. And identifying with some of the dysfunctional behaviours that I have described about the narcissist. But that doesn't mean that's who you are. If you were the narcissist, you wouldn't even entertain that idea. The behaviours that you have engaged in are in reaction to how the narcissist has treated you. It's reactive abuse. You've done some things you're not proud of. You feel like you're the problem. You feel like you're the narcissist. But there is one significant difference between a narcissist and someone who engages in reactive abuse. The difference is that someone who has engaged in reactive abuse will admit what they have done. They will take responsibility for their actions. They will feel embarrassed for how they have acted. Because they know that's not really them. That's not how they would normally act. They won't even say why they did what they did. Because it doesn't matter why. There is no justification for abuse. And we know that. Regardless of what someone has done to us, we will still feel bad for our behaviour. We will wish that we could have responded differently. Instead of blaming the narcissist, we will take responsibility for our actions. But an abusive narcissist will never do any of that. They will put full responsibility for all of their problems onto you. They will shift the blame onto you. And in the rare case that they do give a fake apology, they will always have a reason or excuse for why they did what they did. They always have to minimise what they've done. They cannot accept being at fault. They always have to have someone else to blame. But if you're not the narcissist, and you're just someone who has engaged in reactive abuse, you're not going to hold someone else responsible for your actions. You're going to accept that you made the choice to act in that way. This is how you know what they did. This is how you act in that way. This is how you know that you're not the narcissist. If you feel bad about your actions, if you can openly talk about it, if you don't feel the need to shift the blame onto someone else, if you're not only outlining the bad things about the other person, this is what separates us from narcissists. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Coach and inquire you to email me at nativipcoaching.com Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.