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It was clear that the minister was desperate to somehow get a good-news story out of something that people were resolutely refusing to believe was such good news.
That was just an aside. I want to ask about the new information disclosure scheme. I understand that it is a new departure and that, inevitably, any estimate of the costs and fees must involve an element of assumption.
It was the committee's aim, in going to Aberdeen and Perth, to meet in areas that parliamentary committees had not hitherto visited. That was why we considered places other than Dumfries.