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How would that relate to the cost of acquiring crofts in the first place? Under the croft entrant scheme, a new entrant gets about £3,500. The outgoer gets about £2,000, which is not much of an incentive for someone to give up their croft.
Local authorities, especially the island ones, link up closely with the agriculture industry and we get their views through that. The committee was set up in 1994, but we established a sub-group for the new scheme.
It would be to the Parliament's credit, in bringing a new democracy to Scotland to start the new century, if we were to assert the fact that the Parliament is not just Edinburgh's, but Scotland's.
That leads on to the techie stuff; I do not know whether you want to get on to that now. No; I am trying to get at how we shift funding towards the areas that need it.