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The authority levies processors and the processing industry is telling MSPs across the spectrum about how damaging these times are—we hear it in our constituencies.
I am tempted to suggest that some MSPs might be in need of a good pension after the election—and I do not exclude hill farmers.Is Rhoda Grant satisfied that the test in subsection (3) of the proposed new section is not subjective?
I welcome members of the press and public to this meeting of the Transport and the Environment Committee. I also welcome MSPs who are not members of the committee but who have joined us today: John Farquhar Munro and Jamie McGrigor.
As you said, some of the targets are in our programme for government and I am sure that MSPs will expect us to keep our minds on those ones in particular while thinking of new ones.
We want more co-operation between the various bodies, and the Scottish Homing Union should be included in any research or discussions. Alex Neil MSP is trying to set up a body and I think that he will be successful.
Fergus Ewing and I discussed that three weeks ago in Inverness, at the second briefing for Highlands and Islands MSPs. I put on record the mature way in which representatives across the Highlands and Islands have engaged in discussions on Barmac.I think that there is a feeling that public works are not the answer.