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Schemes such as Turnaround play a vital role in the Scottish Executive's plan to tackle drug-related offending and prevent women from getting caught up in a vicious circle of criminal activity to feed their drug habits.
After all, now that we have a Europe of 25 countries and 500 million citizens, unless the Commission gets this right, we are not going to get our policies right.
Is Highland Council's argument, which is encapsulated in its submission, less to do with landscape than with economic activity? We have expressed an opinion in our evidence in relation to economic activity in Dalwhinnie.
That is the important point. If we can get it right, we will get some very useful evidence, but if we get it wrong we will not get such useful evidence.
Through that programme we have established six clusters of activity in the Highlands and Islands. Much of her work has involved working with the supply and demand sides to bring the two together and get the supply chain working.
I have no difficulty with that, as long as we decide that we cannot take the petition any further forward. We should close the petition but get a response from the Executive about the effectiveness of its strategy to encourage people to take physical activity.