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It would certainly be helpful to the Executive if the procedures could go through the Parliament in early January, as long as enough time is given—taking into account the Christmas holidays, dare I say it—for anything formal that must be drafted to be drafted.
I have visited Norway, where I have been on holiday, climbed and been on business, and I have visited Sweden and Finland.Donald Gorrie mentioned trying to forge closer relationships with the nordic countries as part of our partnership in the EU.
I believe that that is unreasonably short, given that key people reasonably take holidays of 14 days or longer. I look forward to hearing the minister's reasons for making the time scale so short.I move amendment 116.
The concern with the ECHR, particularly article 6, is not whether a development plan is up to date. There can be an out-of-date plan and that can have certain consequences.
Recently we saw what happened when the independent governor of the Bank of England joined the debate about the union and the economy—the SNP jumped on him.
There will be a memorandum that will be quite specific about what we can and cannot do. We do not have access to banks to borrow money willy nilly—we have to do that through our shareholder.
I would ask Christine Grahame where the time scale is in the motion that she supports. There is no date in the motion and there is no date in the amendment.
However, I would have thought that his previous involvement in banking would have given him all the expertise necessary to prepare an alternative budget to put before the Parliament.I will concentrate on two issues.