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It is not like being a politician, who can hide behind the party manifesto and who, if they do not get elected, can say, "Well, I was never going to get elected in this ward anyway."
My view is that we can and should actively encourage children to stay in school at lunch time so that they can get involved in various activities and, one would hope, take up school lunches.
There is no difficulty in any individual member offering such congratulations; the question is how we could get the whole Parliament to do it. This is an important and difficult issue.
I am sure that the minister recognises that we will have to do a lot of work to get a greater share of the world's R and D work on alternative energies and clean technologies.
Provided that our livelihoods were not affected, we could not disagree that a solution could be found, but I foresee problems in getting all the farmers to agree to our sporting activities.
What benefit do you think the people of Scotland, who must live next to those experimental fields, will get in the long term? What financial benefits will Bayer get, as a company, in the future?
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Adventurous Activities Licensing Authority regarding adventure activities undertaken in the context of school trips.