We, the undersigned, call upon the Scottish Government to wind-up the Irvine Bay Regeneration Company. Since its creation in 2006 it has failed to create any substantial new investment in the Irvine Bay area. The area's social, economic and environmental problems, which it had been set up to tackle, have all deteriorated with worrying rapidity. Their poorly conceived plans, lacking a sufficiently large base of evidence, have alienated local businesses and people. Their frequent consultation exercises have been exposed on many occasions as mere public relations exercises, plans presented for discussion have not been altered on a single occasion as a result of one of these stunts. The annual subsidy from North Ayrshire Council (£3.3 million in 2010), is taking money away from vital services to some of the poorest people in the UK and paying for 7 full time and 2 part-time workers to achieve nothing of any significance. It is 'Robin Hood in reverse' - stealing from the poor to pay for the rich.