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Of course, you need time and capacity and resources to do that; I think that you need strengthened resources in order to take on what I hope will be additional responsibilities post-Brexit. We visited Strasbourg last week. We met a number of organisations, including the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights in the Council of Europe.
There is a very clear understanding that those issues need to be teased out and discussed. I will also visit an agri-food business in Ireland next Wednesday morning in order to understand those issues fully.
Substantial work has been done at Dollerie and, on the day that we visited, we stopped at Dollerie bridge and saw the degree to which work had been carried out.
Steps are being taken in how hearings are conducted and how the rooms are set up. On a visit to Inverness, I saw a room that had been set up in a style that aimed for much more conversation instead of there being a table with the panel members sitting on one side and everybody else sitting on the other side.
We can do some preparatory work. We can visit DWP sites, as we have done—we have been to the Isle of Man, Ireland and Northern Ireland—to see how other jurisdictions administer benefit payments and how their operations are organised.
On the one hand, Liam Kerr says that the Government must do something; on the other hand, he says that the Government must not do X, Y and Z. He does not present a solution, which is fair enough, because opposition is really easy.
To ask the Scottish Government which ministers are expected to take part in overseas visits before May 2016, broken down by the (a) date, (b) location and (c) purpose of each visit, and how many officials are expected to attend.