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I ask members for their views and comments on the petition. I met Mr Donald when he visited Parliament and he went over some of what happened in the Public Petitions Committee.
I do not know whether the bill's provisions on rights of entry are new; that is why I am asking you. The complication is that the provisions on rights of entry relate to new powers and new circumstances.
However, the picture that Mike Rumbles paints for us is one of a new Boudicca coming across the horizon with the scimitars attached to the wheels of her chariot to cut the legs off any man foolish enough to stand in her way.
If the committee puts the matter in a legacy paper, a successor committee can consider how best it or another committee could address the issue, perhaps by appointing a reporter from among its number to do something about it.