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My constituency, Edinburgh Pentlands, is home to the reigning Scottish champions, Currie Rugby Football Club, and to Boroughmuir Rugby Football Club, another of our leading premier 1 clubs.
The devolved Administrations should be involved in drawing up the negotiating red lines and the offensive and defensive positions and in every stage of the negotiations through to the ratification of the agreement.
What a state wants to do is to maximise its influence.If we look at the experiences of small states in the European Union, we see that they have sought influence by using a more offensive strategy. We sometimes call it a smart state strategy, and it has three fundamental aspects.
However, it is positive that we are having the debate in advance.The thought occurred to me that every time we get a period of bad weather in Scotland, a director of some senior football club appears on television to demand a winter break in the football season.
We have made significant investment in alcohol brief interventions, which are about changing people’s behaviour and improving individuals’ health at grass-roots level.
That research, which increases our understanding of grey seal behaviour, may also support the view of other scientists that predation by grey seals on harbour seals is a real factor and worthy of additional research.
Inevitably, if one creates a register and a set of circumstances in which there is an expected behaviour, one must have some way of regulating behaviour if it becomes inappropriate.Therefore, if you went down the route of creating a register, I would say yes to sanctions but no to fees.