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If the CJAs are not to be another layer, surely the groupings either stay put or evaporate? The idea is for the new CJAs to supersede the existing groupings.
I cannot agree with anything John Swinburne said about the benefits of quangos in the new towns of Scotland. I represent a new town and I am sitting next to two colleagues who were born and brought up in new towns.
Where a convener resigns, moves or whatever and there is a new convener, you are not precluding that new convener of the committee from being the member in charge.
One is the new framework or so-called basic regulation, which deals with the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fishing resources and the framework of the CFP.
The bill talks about establishing prostitution tolerance zones, but I understand that the Leith and Aberdeen experiments managed existing situations and did not create new zones. The attempt to create a new zone in the Lothians failed.
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.
Let me make it clear to tenants in Highland and in Inverclyde that it is not; it is community ownership, new opportunities for tenant involvement and new opportunities for greater investment and stable rents in the years to come.
The third reason is the requirement for sheriffs and part-time sheriffs to chair some of the new Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland tribunals that were introduced earlier this year.