Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she will answer 'all and any questions' over Scotland’s ferry fiasco
Nicola Sturgeon with shipyard workers in 2015 when the yard won the ferries contract.Nicola Sturgeon has said she will appear in front of a Holyrood committee and is prepared to answer "all and any questions" about Scotland's ferries scandal.
He said the contracts were given “for political purposes” and “everything was about the optics and timing the announcements for political gain.” The shipyard has been at the centre of the SNP's industrial strategy since the contract was awarded in 2015. It also emerged over the weekend that Mr Mackay had been on holiday at a key moment - with his boss the Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure Keith Brown, signing the contract.
Asked if she would appear in front of Holyrood's public audit committee, she added: "I don't consider I have any choice in these matters. "The issues around the construction of the ferries has not been satisfactory and I don't shy away from saying that but it's, I think the Audit Scotland report itself says, that there's been nothing untowards in the procurement of the ferries.
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