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One of my constituents wrote to me last night. She visited the Newcastleton site recently, because campaigners throughout Scotland have linked up strongly on the issue.
Tourism is one of the main economic plants of much of rural Scotland, particularly in the area in which the petitioner resides, but there is no concrete evidence that wind farms restrict the number of tourists visiting an area or cause a drop in business.
When we receive that first report, we can demolish it, turn it upside down, agree to it, or whatever, and then receive a further draft.We still have more to do, such as the visit to London, and more will be added to the report in due course.
We are quite content to follow that requirement as we think that it will provide value for money for the taxpayer. Having visited Campbeltown last year, I want to make the brief observation that I cannot think of a town on the west coast of Scotland that is more deserving of this extra investment.
There are seven FE colleges in the area that I represent and, after visiting some of them, I am concerned that courses are being undertaken for which no jobs are available.
Although we will hear grand words and all the rest of it from others, I want to hear from the sharp end about the delivery of funding. In the past four months, I have visited three of the seven FE colleges in my region.
Once we have agreed a plan of action—where we will go for information and whether we will visit organisations and individuals to gain it—it will become known to the committee and will become the property of the committee via the reporters.
This may be one occasion on which we should take evidence in a private session, and not necessarily in the committee. We might visit a school to talk to some of those young people.I ask the clerk to include Unison among the trade unions, as particular staff who are involved with young people are not teaching staff but community education staff.
I was relieved that amendments 14 to 26 corrected street names but I was slightly alarmed when I saw amendment 27, which was to"leave out and insert ".There is perhaps a mistaken belief that the two tramlines were presented to Parliament as two distinct schemes.