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John Home Robertson's amendment echoes some of the sentiments that he expressed at stage 1. As we have heard, he has reservations about the fact that members of district salmon fishery boards are entrusted with the management of salmon fisheries.
Varying degrees of dissatisfaction were expressed about that. The feeling that decisions are taken elsewhere was particularly marked in the evidence that we heard about planning law.
We have been attempting to reflect some of the concerns that were expressed by members of the Parliament, local authorities, social work professionals and others when we first proposed to set up an agency to tackle reoffending.
I am thinking especially of school students in credit/general classes who are currently performing at general level and would be deprived of the positive influence of their peers who are performing at credit level.