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Again, I wanted to get a sense of the instrument's significance, so Mark Brough spoke to officials. Officials were of the view that the instrument was a rolling forward from last year of the management and enforcement regime on the days-at-sea regulations, which were agreed in the European Union in December.
She recommended that the petition be passed to the Justice 1 Committee"to monitor progress and ensure that its recommendations are implemented".—Official Report, Public Petitions Committee, 15 September 2004; c 990.That is a proper role for the committee to fulfil.
It is sometimes difficult to track expenditure on those matters, which is an important general issue to raise. That will be noted in the Official Report and, I hope, passed on.
Committee members have the procedural note, an extract from the 16th report of the Subordinate Legislation Committee and the explanatory note, which is not part of the instrument.Executive officials will be present for the item.
The First Minister refers to the contribution of my colleague, Mike Russell. I notice, in the Official Report, that the First Minister referred to Michael Russell as"a man of sound judgment".
There will be an overlap on local plans and on structural plans, and a lot of work will have to be done jointly between up to four sets of public officials. That is not without cost. I do not want to labour David Davidson's point, but I would like to back him up on it.