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I am interested in the processes that are followed between the making of regulations and their application by producers in the fishing and agriculture sectors.
You have seen the format when we questioned the previous panel. We will follow exactly the same format, so I invite the witnesses to give their opening statements.
Basically, the committee became a complete laughing stock, to the extent that, according to one of my colleagues, the following day journalists in the black-and-white corridor were rolling about laughing when the convener made an official complaint.
It would be no advantage to the public interest to have a pre-run before we have followed through that course and it would be prejudicial to the Parliament's interest to answer questions of that sort.
In addition, by making a commitment to 40 per cent of energy from renewable energy sources in Scotland by 2020, the Executive might well have bitten off more than it can chew.