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Would-be Ferguson Marine owner sounds off on Scots ferry fiasco national scandal WOULD-BE owners of Ferguson Marine have hit out at the severe mismanagement of the shipyard at the centre of a ferry building fiasco after it emerged that ministers are paying a turnaround director more than £790,000 a year to run it. Gloucester-based businessman Tim Hair was handed the £2565-a-day deal by ex-finance secretary Derek Mackay two years ago. Documents show Hair was paid £791,285 between January 1 and December 31 last year. Now Sandy Easdale, who owns the Greenock-based McGill s Buses has accused ministers of throwing taxpayers’ cash around like confetti in the ongoing ferries scandal.
Ferries fiasco fixer paid £790k a year by Scottish Government as opposition call for probe
Tim Hair was handed the Âastronomical £2565-a-day deal to run the Ferguson Marine shipyard by shamed ex-finance secretary Derek Mackay two years ago.
Tim Hair is on almost six times First Minister Nicola Sturgeonâs £151,000 salary (Image: Internet Unknown)
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FERGUSON S should be awarded every single new Caledonian MacBrayne ferry contract by the Scottish Government in the post-Brexit era, an election candidate has declared. The Alba Party s Chris McEleny says ministers free from European Union rules and bureaucracy could now provide two decades of work to the nationalised Port Glasgow industrial hub. Mr McEleny acknowledged that there is still much work to be done in turning the shipyard around and completing two currently heavily delayed CalMac ships. But he insisted that a bright future for the yard is within the gift of a government who stepped in to rescue the yard with a nationalisation deal after the original £97m ferries deal turned sour.