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Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill: Consideration Stage Good morning and welcome to the seventh meeting in 2005 of the Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill Committee.
We can sit and say nothing and force you to lead your evidence." Once we give the accused that right—and all the associated rights, such as presumption of innocence and the right to silence—it is difficult to make the system more efficient.
That is a massive injection of resources for the national health service in Scotland, on top of the increases in health agreed in the Budget (Scotland) Bill.
The immediate priorities are to secure and complete the motorway network in the west of Scotland and to secure the Glasgow airport rail link, which is fundamentally important for the city, for the west of Scotland as a whole and for Glasgow airport.
For example, the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Bill dealt with snaring, which was a very controversial issue at the Environment and Rural Development Committee.
I am not defending that position; I am saying that the Executive—which has not said that it will not introduce legislation—would argue that, to get the billright it would have to carry out the proper consultation process.
The job should be done for a period of time, but not indefinitely. Let me just get this right for the clerks. We are agreed that we should include in the bill a term of office of up to five years with the flexibility to reappoint if we so wished.