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If they were going to work with children, however, any offence would be taken into account. I do not quite follow. Let us take someone who is working in one of the excepted professions—a chartered psychologist, for example.
As much as some people might often want that line to be followed, we are not herded into separate political parties in which we all agree with each other.
How do we square that with Ross Finnie's statement that the Executive wants 40 per cent of Scotland's generation to come from indigenous renewable sources by 2020? Those two facts do not square. I appreciate that.
He has said that the UK Government's plans to generate 20 per cent of electricity from renewable sources by 2020—it is 40 per cent in the case of the Scottish Executive—are unrealistic and that investment in nuclear power is therefore critical if shortages are to be avoided.