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It is important to acknowledge the critical significance for any new organisation of being able to establish itself, to settle in and to put in place structures that will last.
I am afraid that I must go to the Rural Development Committee later, but I can be here for questions to the minister.On behalf of the committee, I am pleased that the Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Services is visiting the committee for the first time.
I am afraid that I must go to the Rural Development Committee later, but I can be here for questions to the minister.On behalf of the committee, I am pleased that the Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Services is visiting the committee for the first time.
Members will have seen from their e-mail that the European ombudsman, Jacob Soderman, is visiting Parliament on 3 May at 10 am. He particularly wants to meet the Public Petitions Committee.
The tourism industry has already had a hard time in Scotland because of high fuel prices and the strong pound. The latest blow will make a lot of businesses go under completely.
However, I am happy to speak to Mr Wallace and to get back to Mrs Ewing. Those of us who visited Africa had the opportunity to visit three legislatures.
The major decreases are in expenditure on communities programmes, down £35 million in real terms—I will come back to that—and in the unallocated capital modernisation fund, down £26 million in real terms. However, all is not as it seems.
Our European colleagues see no need to stimulate more new planting, as they have enough forests and do not see why we should put money into expanding our cover, so a drop-off in new planting may be on the horizon.