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I have a follow-up point on that issue, in relation to problems that exist in identifying housing sites in very rocky areas. There must be the best possible co-operation between the planning authorities and SEPA in order to identify sites at an early stage.
I believe that MSPs are even more difficult to herd than hens, so the fact that the clerks managed to organise a substantial number of what turned out to be really good meetings is all credit to them. Many thanks go to them for that.
The question needs to be asked whether the development is proximal to a protected site, on contaminated land or close to a site that SEPA licenses or regulates, such as a waste management site or a pollution prevention and control site....
There is a lot of interest in that process, but practical problems arise from the economics of taking brash off site and there are ecological issues about removing nutrients from the site.
With regard to benefits, no doubt the minister is aware that almost 50 per cent of Scotland's pensioners who are entitled to pensioner credit do not claim it. She will also be aware that the £200 winter fuel payment has not been increased since 2000.
In the Provisionally Free Area blood samples have been collected from 112 flocks and, as at 26 June, confirmed negative results have been received from 108 flocks, with only four results still awaited.
I read those statistics, but given that in the first six months of this year the number of visitors to Scotland from abroad increased by 12 per cent and the number of visitors from Europe increased by 25 per cent, I think that they might have to be looked at again.