While it is not for us to determine what subjects Audit Scotland will undertake, I certainly think we can state that it's one that we naturally would want to see sooner rather than later.

More and more services are meeting important clinical standards and survival rates show a marked improvement. We acknowledge, however, that the service still faces significant challenges, particularly in meeting the 2005 waiting-time target.

It is imperative that a sensitive approach is taken to ensure the victims, their family and friends are protected from the deep emotions that the constant revisiting of this tragedy can unleash.

We are discussing a number of possible options with our international and private-sector partners that will allow us to achieve our mutual goals of enhancing security.

It will give us an advantage as far as injuries. We'll see fewer, I think, because the artificial surface is softer and has more give than grass. We won't have to worry about someone stepping in a hole and turning a knee or ankle. And we won't have to worry about Mother Nature as much - when it rains, there won't be the slipping and sliding that you tend to see with grass.

We will do anything and everything the campus asks us to do. We want to make sure the right thing is being done and the correct thing is being done. We never foster an atmosphere of hazing.