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Unless we have a good understanding of those areas and can get some buy-in to what we are trying to do, it is hard for Scottish Enterprise to determine what Scotland's priorities and responses should be.
I am not completely au fait with that legislation, but I know that certain chemicals, including the ones that I have mentioned, are restricted in such a way that people must sign for them when they buy them. However, that is the legitimate user.
Some local authorities carry insurance—they go out and buy policies to insure themselves—and some authorities are self-insuring in so far as they believe that they have sufficient funds to allow them to cover any claims that they may have.
However, if we have overcapacity, does that not give us the prospect of exporting water to private systems south of the border that need to buy water from Scotland? That seems pretty obvious to me.
We have that consistency, and I hope that the concerns of the mobile phone companies have been dealt with.Sir William also mentioned that better information about buying and selling mobile phones should be available.
That was a waste and a loss; sometimes duplication is necessary to ensure that all the active bodies in an area buy in to strategic development, whether that is development of tourism or the economy.There are a number of areas where duplication takes place.
As you will know, it is estimated that the difference between the number of Gaelic speakers who die and the number of Gaelic speakers who come on stream every year amounts to a net loss of nearly 1,000 Gaelic speakers.