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Shiona Baird is clearly one of the few.For most people here, a green job is the 17 weeks of gardening that they can do in recess, but creating jobs is no bed of roses.
The statutory instrument, which was made and laid before the parliamentary summer recess and which we are discussing today, provides the enabling legislation for that scheme.
I do not want to pick an arbitrary date out of thin air, but rather than give objectors 11 days and the promoter 24 days, I suggest that we ask the clerks to rebalance the dates.
Therefore, we are perfectly entitled to introduce secondary legislation that says that the starting date is as stated—the IACS year 2000 will commence on 16 May.
I was sorry that during the summer recess I was unable to welcome Margaret Curran to my constituency of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, because we could not merge our timetables, but she would still be very welcome.