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However, one of the most difficult problems in rehabilitation is getting people to understand the effects of their actions on other people and getting them to take responsibility for those actions.
When it comes to depredations on wildlife, Scotland is now a target for egg collectors, who can get away with things in Scotland that they cannot get away with in England.
I sympathise with the point that Bill Aitken has made. We are getting just one side of the story. This is not a new situation, as I remember that 15 or 20 years ago there was a problem with getting replacements for wardens—it is not always easy to fill the posts.
If a person lives on a main route, it is very easy for them to get from any of the Lanarkshire towns into Glasgow, but they cannot get a bus to the local town centre to collect their pension.