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Successful companies in my own area that want to expand are constrained by the labour shortage in the area; people either do not live near enough to the businesses or cannot travel to work.
That applies to the cables that we have hanging above us in this committee room and to the pylons in the Highlands, where I live—some people like them and some do not.
Obviously, we will want to see the precise terms of the amendment but, if it lives up to the spirit of what has been said this morning, I imagine that the committee will welcome it and—without wishing to pre-empt a decision—would recommend that it be agreed to.
If we had been given an example, we might have been able to live with it, but if anything that the Executive would legitimately be entitled to do is contained in the other words, why have the blank-cheque word?
The point is a fair one. People who spend their lives negotiating in Europe on such matters sometimes forget that we do not consider such issues every day.How do members wish to deal with the issue of prisons?
The third is:"the Parliament should be aiming to strike the correct balance between disclosure in the public interest and the protection of Members' families/associates from unwarranted intrusions in their private lives."I throw the floor open. I would like to hear what the committee feels.
I feel that we encourage big farms, which push people off the land rather than keep them in rural areas. The fewer people there are living on the land, the less need there is for health services, schools, housing and everything else.