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We all know that the Tories would like us to return to the days when our industries were behind those of the rest of the world and we were falling behind because we were not investing in or ensuring that we capitalised on Scotland's potential and assets.
We need to rise to the occasion and debate the issues, not the process, and ensure that, at the end of the day, we in Scotland—and in Edinburgh, too—make the right decisions for the future.
They are also examining ways of managing the traffic on the bridge through measures such as tolls that vary according to the time of day people cross the bridge and according to whether a vehicle has a single occupant.
That would deal with the petitioner's concerns. Events in the past few days have overtaken the petition. I agree that the management of the team should be restructured.
I have tried hard in recent years to meet the fishermen at all hours of the day and night. Indeed, I met Mr Lochhead at a very unseemly hour last year, when both of us might have been better in our beds, but in the interests of Scottish fishing we remained alive and alert.
I would like to pick up that point with the minister. In the past few days, another adverse issue has arisen, namely the threat to regional air services in the UK in the form of changes to air traffic control charges.
I hope that we agreed on the way forward for NORPEC, and on whom we should invite to the one-day conference that we hope to host in Edinburgh later this year.
I will give the First Minister a further opportunity to answer the question that has been asked repeatedly over the past couple of days. Will he confirm that the agreement on GM maize was a collective decision by Westminster and the devolved authorities?