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It would have the time to take the right evidence, do the proper research, get all the background stuff together and produce a serious report, and it could do that in a relatively short timescale.
If they are breached and no timetable is placed on the Executive in which to produce a response prior to a parliamentary debate, we will be complicit in setting a precedent that none of us would wish to set.
The only thing that I can point to on that question is the report that was produced by Experian Business Strategies Ltd, the consultants who will, I believe, come to give evidence at some point.
As a result, we are very happy to work with the clerks to produce on each of the boards some areas of questioning that we can submit for the committee's approval.
We have received responses from the Executive, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities to a reporter's paper that Fiona McLeod produced on petition PE377, which we will consider with a view to producing a draft final report for our next meeting.
The agency's view is that the risk from imported meat products is similar to those from home-produced meat of three or four years ago, after the application of the feed ban in 1996.