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In the context of our discussion with the Finnish Parliament's Environment Committee clerk, if sustainable development is to be a strategic policy of the Government that people buy into, issues such as the one that we are discussing must fit in with that policy.
Sometimes, it would be helpful for the Presiding Officer to have the opportunity to select questions for question time. Recently, the first person to die in a fire in Scotland during the firefighters' strike died in my constituency.
It was said that they were not big enough and that the council would have to buy some of the land. Does the council own the land— The land is the playing fields and common good land.
For example, one has to decide whether people can buy cigarettes or alcohol at 16 or 18, just as one must decide whether the size of a small shop is more than 280m2 or the size of half a tennis court.
Therefore, it is not dependent on the total land area; it is almost a fixed cost that farmers will expect to buy into. For that reason, there is a financial implication for the rural stewardship scheme and the budget that will be available for it, and indeed to implement the regulations.