Ninewells talks must succeed

Sir, - In reply to Councillor Macpherson (June 21) I was asking where the initial Ninewells car parking buy-out money was to come from and how the maintenance costs and running costs were to be funded bearing in mind the current financial situation.

While he has suggested that the buy-out funding is a problem for the Scottish Government he has not addressed these and other questions from Mr Provan and myself.

He thinks the other two Scottish hospital car parks would continue to have charges imposed with no call for them to be treated the same as Ninewells. We must be looking at a total of about £90 million for the entire package.

The capacity issue could be helped by erecting a multi-storey car park on car park nine.

Again there is the question of funding. Centralisation of services over the years has not helped. Hopefully there will be a positive result from the proposed talks but in all honesty I would not hold my breath. Alfred Small. 8 Claypotts Terrace, Broughty Ferry.