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I remind the First Minister of his answers to two essential points. First, Norwegian fish swim across borders, just like Scottish fish, but they do not need a common fisheries policy.
That is the way in which to deliver Scotland's priorities, which is what we will continue to do. On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I suspect that it is a point of argument, but I shall hear it.
We will write to the Executive to say that we are anxious to know the lie of the land, as Kenny Gibson said, and what point we have reached in the process.
Perhaps her day will come. There is a serious point here. We cannot have a situation in which we have a diminishing number of back benchers to serve on committees.
What about sport? Mr Macintosh made a good point about sport, but the same point could be made about arts, modern languages, health and—in today's society, I would have thought—a number of other areas of personal and social development.