 on Friday morning. Its five MSPs have been considering the damning report in March by Scotland's independent auditor-general, Stephen Boyle, who found the delivery of two ferries had been 'fraught with problems and delays for over six years' with escalating costs, by then, two and a half times the original project budget.Every player in this fiasco is now Scottish government owned and controlled. Its agencies Transport Scotland and CMAL fund and procure new vessels, respectively. Ministers now own the yard which, as Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (FMEL), had been rescued by the entrepreneur Jim McColl and then awarded the contract to deliver two still unfinished ferries. And the operator who will deploy them, if){kind=link}
Our first minister appears before Holyrood’s public audit committee (PAC) on Friday morning. Its five MSPs have been considering the damning report in March by Scotland’s independent auditor-general, Stephen Boyle, who found the delivery of two ferries had been “fraught with problems and delays for over six years” with escalating costs, by then, two and a half times the original project budget.
Every player in this fiasco is now Scottish government owned and controlled. Its agencies Transport Scotland and CMAL fund and procure new vessels, respectively. Ministers now own the yard which, as Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (FMEL), had been rescued by the entrepreneur Jim McColl and then awarded the contract to deliver two still unfinished ferries. And the operator who will deploy them, if
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