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Jennifer Smart may want to say something about the background to the proposal in paper PR/S3/07/1/4, which the clerks have produced. The paper, which includes a copy of a letter from the Parliamentary Bureau, is self-explanatory.
I ask the committee to consider inviting the Scottish Government to consult Health Protection Scotland and to ask it to review the evidence that has been produced since 2004 before a decision is finally and irrevocably made that does not include undergrounding—which the petitioners seek and I support.
It is difficult to do that without talking about council compromise agreements, and it is difficult to talk about them without talking about the English case of Allen v GMB. Would you like to respond to the description of that case in Mark Irvine's written submission?
For the record, perhaps you could say how you are proposing to produce clear and unambiguous definitions of terms such as “into the wild” and “native range”.
He was clearer that, if research was produced that indicated that a problem exists, the Government would be supportive of doing something about the issue.