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I am not sure that it would be our role to investigate quangos, although it is a tempting topic in many ways. I would not oppose such an inquiry, but I think that we have other priorities under our financial remit.
Do you want to comment on the fact that, without exception, all the police witnesses said that all the money should go to front-line and community policing? Many of us have been calling for that for some time.
The committee took the view that the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill, very welcome as it is, would entrench many things to which we believed people already had rights.
Ever since Mike Watson published the bill, I have felt that it attacks many of the country sports and activities that should not have had any locus in it.