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I agree that we would not want to start with a body of the scale that Professor Leith has just identified; five to 10 people should be perfectly adequate to get the body up and running for its first month or year of activity.
I cannot speak for others, but certainly my concern is about public safety and who will get caught up in this—and, indeed, how you will ensure that people do not get caught up in it.
For example, a community might have a number of turbines in a scheme; it would get soft loans for operation and maintenance activity and it would share revenues over the 25-year period.
When I buy one of those newspapers, get on the train and turn the page, I feel embarrassed when I get to page 3, so I turn the page quickly to get to the next page.
We need to ensure that a bill on the matter that is placed before Parliament is 100 per cent right; it would be too important not to get right, and we would need to get it right first time.