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I understand from reading political science accounts and journalistic accounts and from speaking to people who were there that there were no major problems.
I fully understand that we have to take into account a whole range of political issues to do with whether control over the rail infrastructure should be devolved to the Scottish Parliament; however, I want to lay those to one side.
Because we have not thought about how to deal with what we might call national-local programmes in terms of decision making and accountability mechanisms, the system is not very accountable.
There is considerable scope for angling, particularly coarse angling, to grow in Scotland and the bill helps to lay the foundations for such growth to take place sustainably.