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Would you continue to press for a public inquiry into all the other aspects of the problem? In an ideal world, it would be important to hold a public inquiry.
All committee members have undertaken a site visit of the railway. I think that I speak on behalf of the whole committee in saying how helpful we found the visit to our understanding of the issues surrounding the project.
They are not what we would wish in an ideal world. However, if we want to have a sustainable fishing industry and healthy stocks in the North sea, action to reduce fishing effort must be taken.
We have also drawn on the knowledge and experience of other countries that are operating progressive freedom of information legislation. I had the opportunity to visit Ireland last summer and to visit New Zealand over Christmas.
It would be done partly through those groups and partly through our visits. Our visits will not involve going off to nice conferences in places such as Milan, but going to places such as Whitfield, Easterhouse and Pilton—although I do not know Edinburgh that well.
The idea of enabling tourists to go on a train into the heart of Borders country—ideally to Melrose, which is the tourism hotspot in the Borders—should have been considered by the promoter.
The community recycling sector is diverting from landfill more waste than the best-performing local authority.On economic impact, the sector has an annual turnover of about £25 million to £26 million. All the figures are increasing since the mapping studies that we carried out in 2005 and 2003.