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To ask the Scottish Executive what avenues it is exploring with regard to compensation for both the buying of GM contaminated seeds by Scottish farmers and the sowing and destruction of the crop in Scotland.
Getting it right will take a bit longer but in the process we can prove that the new Parliament offers a new, more robust approach to resolving difficult issues and building a real consensus."
Thank you, convener. This is my first visit to the Health Committee and I thank members for the opportunity to address you so early in my new role, although I will be brief.
I would be happy for such a meeting to be additional to the others. We do not need to visit all the islands but we should visit at least one, although I am not sure which.
I will ask a couple of general questions about the New Opportunities Fund and the new body, which I understand will rather unimaginatively be called the big fund.