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That course of action allows us to flag up the issue while letting farmers across Scotland get on with implementing the regulations—which is what we all want.
Does the minister acknowledge that all the problems of trying to get the grid to work in the Highlands are creating developer hot spots down the east coast, and that the planning regime is not strong enough to deal with those issues?
I thank the First Minister for that long and thoughtful answer, but it does not quite get to the point that I asked about, which was whether there are any areas where he wants a veto to be exercised.
Every week, we come to the chamber and hear pious words from the Tory party about efficiency in the public sector, yet when it gets a chance to vote for such a proposal, it does not have the guts to do so.
As everyone knows, over the past three years under the Executive, the problem of delayed discharges has been getting seriously worse and not better.I wonder whether the First Minister heard the observations of his colleague down south last week.
Well, I would like to congratulate not just Ross Finnie, but Elliot Morley on representing Scotland's fishermen in Brussels on Monday and getting improvements on at least three different quotas.