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In the Strath of Kildonan, there are six lodges that provide accommodation for high-paying visiting anglers. The wives and daughters of most workers in our strath work in those lodges.
I received a letter from the chairman of Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust in April 1999 that advised me of a visit that Sam Galbraith had made to Tayside Health Board at that time.
SNH's spending plans on access will encourage more people to visit the countryside and provide a useful long-term stimulus to the economy of rural Scotland.
It has been pointed out to me that many nurses—who are accountable to the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting—will be employed in care homes.
Unfortunately, the Inland Revenue is stretched, but we have tried to get it to visit some of those sites. There is unfair competition in the construction industry in Britain, in comparison with Europe.
As I hope that we did on our first visit to this committee a couple of weeks ago, we want to make a strong statement: we were not aware of the financial crisis.
While mink hunts are no longer based in Scotland, it is known that they visit on occasion. The last-known visit was in July 1999, when the Dove Valley mink hounds from Derbyshire hunted on the River Eden near Cupar in Fife.