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The devices are incompatible with the approach to tackling antisocial behaviour that we have adopted, and it behoves me to say that we do not equate antisocial behaviour with young people.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 February 2008
Saying that we should get away with bad behaviour while expecting others to behave well is cynical and will not resolve the problem of climate change, as is needed.
On average, the fines are under £250, which simply does not act as a disincentive for that sort of behaviour, despite the fact that salmon is an endangered species.
I want to say that the industry strongly condemns any of that behaviour. We want to have a system that people cannot abuse, and we want them not to be able to abuse their workers.
Will the Scottish Government ditch the constitutional football, reverse the cuts and invest properly in the solutions for which the front line has called for decades?