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I believe that fishermen recognise that our shellfish stocks need to be better managed and that this management is best controlled by those with an interest in the continued health of the stocks: the fishermen and those who buy and process their catch. I am delighted that Shetland has led the way with a successful promotion of a regulating order for fisheri...
It is well known that the Executive will introduce legislation to provide a right of responsible access to land, and to provide a community right to buy in respect of land. The Executive has measures in place for the protection of our natural heritage.
Fife Council says that it will use increased borrowing powers to buy additional rail services to provide 300 extra seats in peak evening and morning periods.
We are being asked not just to elect a First Minister, but—if we vote for Donald Dewar—to buy a pig in a poke. When I went to the document office of the Parliament this morning and asked what was in the Lib-Lab agreement, nobody could tell me.
However, lessons should be learned from the scheme's development to inform future policy proposals in the Scottish Parliament. Top of the list of lessons should be the non-means-testing approach.
I would therefore expect the enforcement agencies to put heroin at the top of the list. I would expect them to target all drugs, but in terms of the causes of death, ill health and criminality, and in terms of the volume that comes into the country, heroin is at the top of the list and should be the key priority.
We are all responsible for ensuring that it does not die and for encouraging other people to debate and discuss what should be happening so that Scotland can have a culture it can be proud of.
We know that people with mental health problems die younger, live poorer-quality lives, are more likely to live in poverty and are far less likely to be in work.