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We are within the timescale: I understand that the procedure is that a member of the Scottish Parliament may lodge a motion to annul the instrument within 40 days of the date of the instrument's coming into effect.
I have followed the situation from before the establishment of the less favoured area support scheme, in the days of the previous hill livestock compensatory allowance.The minister has been made to jump through hoops to achieve what we have now, therefore we have to be careful what we do with the regulations.
I have experience of how expensive it can be to request the transcript of a three-day procedure. No hindrance should be put in the way of proper justice in Scotland.
We are not in a position to take a final decision one way or the other and consultation should be the order of the day. I totally endorse Alex Neil's comments.
Reports are always released in a co-ordinated way so that the committee agrees and issues its reports for publication on a particular day. Any disagreements are reflected in the text of the report.
We never seem to get to those hard questions, so it would be useful to discuss that.I think that we should do something about the RAE. That would lend itself to a one-day slot. Do you mean the research assessment exercise?
My speech could raise such concerns only on the basis of the previous case, which was concluded three years and one day ago today, in which Shirley McKie, who is present in the public gallery, was found not guilty of perjury.