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The bill is supposed to support and encourage crofting; in other words, it is meant to be advantageous to crofting. Unfortunately, to date, concerns have been expressed to us—by witnesses and in submissions—that the bill might further open up crofts to the market.
Colleges are beginning to forge ahead with these partnerships and to take the lead in setting up dates, times and venues to identify key organisations and named people within them.
The board is not aware of any breach of the condition to date. I should explain that the introduction of the condition was not, as it were, a big bang on a single day, when it suddenly applied to every public house or hotel in Dundee.
Given that much of the work of the bill will be done by regulations that will be considered at a later date, I hope that those regulations will take account of the general principles and will not contradict them.
I will wind up by saying that I think that it would be welcome, at a later date, to have a further and wider debate specifically on the important subject of drugs.
We have a long-standing connection with sub-Saharan Africa. In the summer recess, I went to the 15th international AIDS conference, in Thailand, where I had the privilege of hearing Nelson Mandela three times in 24 hours.
To impose the economic consequences of the bill on top of the impact of foot-and-mouth disease would tip certain sectors of our local economy into recession and would flatly contradict the public policy objective of diversifying rural and agricultural economies.I appreciate the fact that the passing of the bill would have little or no measurable impact on t...
Those who believed that a just case had been made and that loose ends and anomalies could be dealt with easily at a later date favoured the bill. Those who felt that the implications for the park had to be considered and that changing the boundaries of a national park through a member's bill might set an unwelcome precedent preferred that the whole issue be...