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For example, one could apply for world heritage site designation for the Cairngorms area, but there is no obvious natural buffer zone around that central area.
I would rather leave words such as official status aside.We read in newspapers throughout the world that Gaels will be forcing Gaelic on everyone if it becomes an official language.
I would like to pursue that point and find out about developments.If there are no further questions, I thank the Auditor General and officials from Audit Scotland. Meeting continued in private until 14:46.
I think that the holidays that we took at Christmas were probably the same public holidays that others took, including Executive officials. It therefore seems to me rather disingenuous for the Executive to say that the fault is ours because we were not open for business when it was not open for business either.
When a bill is going through Parliament, however, I am slightly unclear how the process will normally work. Will it always come before us officially or will we have to pick it up in passing, as it were?
Members will know that New Lanark was designated as a world heritage site just before Christmas. New Lanark is a unique site in that it is led by the voluntary sector.
They could sufficiently work up a subject to enable it to be considered by the official committee system. I am sure that the official committees will have a long queue of issues to which they will want to attend.