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There was a delay in bringing the matter to the committee. A good new year to everybody.I wanted to draw the committee's attention to the fact that although there has been a breach of the 21-day rule, the rural affairs department has apologised for that.
(S1O-308) The Deputy Minister for Highlands and Islands and Gaelic (Mr Alasdair Morrison): An important objective of the new strategy will be to make the remoter parts of Scotland more attractive to tourists.
The targets for renewable energy production and traffic reduction are set low.We face a Scotland that is peppered with new incinerators, new motorways and even, possibly, new nuclear power stations.
I will take Cathie Craigie's advice and look at the consultation process for Karen Whitefield's proposed Christmas and new year's day trading in Scotland bill, because it is only through experience that a new Parliament can learn.
You make the point that substantial extra resources are going into the system, yet at the same time the existing system is managing those pressures. The new structure will be critical. Monitoring how the new boards work will be quite a task.
I hope, bearing in mind the number of new points—they were certainly new to us—that were raised last week, that I will not stretch the convener's famous latitude too much.
As a result, it should be argued that additional rates income is good news as it reflects new business start-ups and not any additional costs for existing businesses.Irrespective of Mr Monteith's arguments, we should acknowledge that a cut in non-domestic rates means a cut in public services.
In the end, a powerful EU delegation was brought across to visit some of the more remote parts of northern Scotland to see how difficult it would be to administer a sheep tagging identification scheme.
That reflects the point that Mr Monteith made: the creation of a path can be held up easily if there are 114 agreements and one non-agreement. The prospect of any new path is sunk at that point. People often desire to have circular walks.