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They are pretty all-encompassing, providing a good background and then laying out exactly how the Scottish Government intends to deliver on those points.
On the costs of bus transport, we already spend more than £200 million a year on free bus travel for around one quarter of the population, which accounts for one third of all bus journeys in Scotland.
Under the act, as it has been implemented, people who share my identity—that of a lay Catholic member of the Irish diaspora—are most likely to be viewed as victims.
The clerks have asked me to point out that if we decide to defer a decision, we will not prevent the minister from laying the order. That is entirely in his hands—he can lay the order.