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We have considered them and plan to have a review over the next two years to address those points. Robert Brown addressed the issue of capital investment and revenue streams.
It will shock a few people to hear that I am referring to Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who instigated an additional winter fuel payment of £200 to every senior citizen in the land.
On the one hand, he has Labour back benchers who agree with me that nuclear is not the way forward, but, on the other hand, he has Tony Blair and Gordon Brown pushing nuclear at every single opportunity.
Oil is an all-Scotland industry and an all-Scotland resource.Of course the industry will change. We need to move towards brown-field and fallow-field development.
Human rights are part of the moral basis of a modern society, and we should not lose sight of their importance. Robert Brown also spoke of the need for a truly independent body.
We need mediation, reparation, community service orders and adequate supervision by social workers. As Robert Brown said, social work departments are short of people.
It strikes me that those incidents have received a large amount of publicity, given that every blooming day people suffer direct racial abuse because they happen to have a brown face or do not have English as their first language.