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All the suggestions have been valid, but we have to get them in order. We must first get the views of the Minister for Health and Community Care on the report of the work of SAGE, Professor Draper and Professor Henshaw.
I seem to be coming out with fish this afternoon.With regard to the economic and financial affairs council, I see on page 18 of the briefing paper that a certain amount of European taxpayers' money is being spent on getting access for European fishing fleets to various African and other waters.
The bill is small and it might not look as though much work would be needed to get it right, but I know that the non-Executive bills unit did a lot of work to get the bill to the Parliament and to deal with the amendments.
Such a procedure would be part of a preventive approach. Perhaps we need to get such an argument across to conveners and explain that we expect them to be not the watchdog, but just part of the process.