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We align all our readiness levels to the yellow, amber or red warnings that come in, and we have excellent advice from SEPA and the Met Office that is getting better every year as the modelling gets better.
I have been in Parliament for eight years and, in that time, the news on this topic has never been good; it is always getting worse—occasionally, it gets less bad, but here we are again.
At an appropriate time, that will, of course, be considered. I am keen that we get all members in, so I would be grateful if we could pick up the pace.
I share my constituents’ views: at the end of the day, if somebody killed two folk with a shotgun, they would be unlikely ever to get a shotgun licence again, so why would a driver who had killed somebody get a driving licence again?