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Can the minister assure me that he understands the benefits that play can bring to young people and to tackling the obesity epidemic and that he will give his best efforts to securing further opportunities for Scottish children to play?
That probably goes a little beyond my remit as Deputy Minister for Education and Young People, but I am more than happy to talk to my colleagues in the Health Department to find out what part we can play in it.
If we go out and sell that message across the world, rather than talking Scotland down, we will see more people wanting and choosing to live and work here.
What is the potential to make efficiency savings? The Executive's point about management of the system, which it made directly to the authorities, was well made.
We should always try to learn from one other, but—this is a delicate point—I wonder how willing the Norwegians would be to surrender some of their best intelligence about sea cage fish farming.
I do not think that it is anything to die in a ditch over. I agree. I was merely reflecting the earlier discussions to which I was privy and which I thought I should share with committee members.