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One issue on which business lobbies all ministers is the need for transport infrastructure improvements, which I am determined to deliver. To get rid of congestion, improve the situation and make transport connections flow, I rule out no approach.
I believe that Mr Raffan wants to raise some issues under any other business. However, before we get to that, I should say that this is the last meeting at which our clerk, Stephen Imrie, will be present.
It would be helpful to ask the petitioners to await the response that they get from the various organisations that they have listed before coming back to us.
That is what this week's report discloses.The First Minister's problem is that he and Mr Kerr are so concerned about getting a few hundred million pounds extra into their pot from our businesses that they cannot see the wider United Kingdom picture.
Can we consider places that have not been visited before and exclude, or not tend towards, places that have been visited before? Before we get on to the location, perhaps we can deal with the format of the meeting.