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That demonstrates the importance of the rural economy and why it is so important that we get a proper and efficient CAP.People might characterise MSPs such as myself who represent urban areas as thinking of rural areas as areas that simply have farms full of cows and sheep.
I welcome the encouragement from Mark McDonald MSP to look at the incentivisation scheme in Northern Ireland, which provides relief to ratepayers after they fill empty properties.
Thank you, convener, and thank you for helping to explain exhibit 8.Because I am a Highlands and Islands MSP, my second question will be about the 40-minute travel time to reach the nearest regional centre.
I am concerned that, with the removal of locally elected members from their police oversight role, responsibility must fall more on the shoulders of MSPs to play an active role in monitoring the function of Scotland’s police.
Hopefully, the 1+2 approach will allow many more Scots to do just that.Some months ago, I was approached by a German television station that wanted to interview an SNP MSP on the subject of the referendum.
Crucially, the real fiscal accountability that the Scotland Bill offers means that the Parliament and every MSP will have to think about how money is raised, not just about how it is spent.
—Official Report, Health and Sport Committee, 10 January 2012; c 798.Therefore, as a back-bench MSP, I urge every party and every member to support this proposal to tackle alcohol misuse in Scotland.I am a smoker.