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That, of course, includes, as I have said many times in the chamber, consideration of the Conservatives’ wider proposals in their proposal for draft legislation.
From my work as a constituency MSP over the past five years, I know that the petition speaks to a real problem and captures the concerns of many people who live in rural Scotland.
As has been said previously in the chamber by many of my ministerial colleagues, we were, in some regards, facing the unknown and, as has been said, we made some mistakes.
Given the red tape surrounding business today and the many difficulties that businesses have to cope with in order to survive, anything that we can do in this place to minimise bureaucracy has to be a good thing.I do not have too much to add in the time remaining.
We absolutely recognise the importance of an SPS agreement to many businesses and to many sectors that are represented here today, and it will also be of significant value to many seafood businesses.
If it was working, we would not have so many people in delayed discharge or struggling to get a place in a care home, and we would not have so many people having to pay to go private.