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For our part, the SNP has produced a Gaelic bill twice in the past 25 years. I welcome the latest bill, which—Parliament willing—will reach the statute book.
The timetable will be tight.You are all members of political parties, and I would have thought that you would want a new system done and dusted and up and running by October, November or December—at the latest—of the year preceding the election.
I hope that, if they are agreed to, they might set a new trend and a new approach.Basically, the bill contains a power that allows the Executive to enter into contracts for tagging.
SEA is a vital tool in our work to ensure that when we seek to introduce new public plans for change in Scotland the environment is fully taken into account, not as an afterthought, but up front in the first stages of development of any new strategy, plan or programme.I have set out the general principles that we see...