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When Tom Johnston wrote his letter about the liberty to go on land, he was talking not from the point of view of the law of property, but from the much wider point of view of public access to land.
Everybody was notified originally; they were all told about it. We put out a press release when we got the state aid approval, and we told the National Farmers Union in Scotland, which also put out a press release.
Before I ask the minister to move amendment 123 and speak to the other amendments, I point out that I will call Ken Macintosh to speak to amendment 26, which is in the name of Sylvia Jackson.
As Jeff Watson said, the question is whether there would be any point in including in the bill an explicit offence relating to fossils to make that point clear.
It will be for Shirley McKie and her legal advisers to consider how they would best wish to proceed in the circumstances, especially in the light of this report.
The bullet point after that should be"to consider the role of and funding by public agencies".That point has an impact on the evidence that we should take, which I will touch on later.
Before closing what has been a rapid meeting, I inform members that our next meeting is expected to take place on Tuesday 3 May 2005. Meeting closed at 13:26.