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I do not know enough about dogs, but would it be possible in the future to train Labradors or spaniels—[Interruption.] That is what I am wondering, but from the expression on your faces, I guess that the answer is definitely not. There is an issue that we really need to get into. We are talking about dogs that will work as a pack. Could dogs that are owned by and in the control of separate people on a rough shoot potentially form a pack?

So, the provisions could be enforced by saying that there is a difference between the types of dogs.

I am aware that—[Inaudible.]—and I wanted to see whether he wants to come in on anything. We have not heard from him yet and I want to afford him the opportunity to speak to anything that has come up. I noticed some of his expressions, and I would love to hear his perspective.

Willie Coffey has a supplementary.

On the local place plan issue, how will it all fit together? There are local development plans. It is great that Jim Miller talked about pausing them. What is the sequencing? How do we get communities on board and alert to the opportunity to make a local place plan? How does that feed into the local development plan? Is there timing for that?

Okay. On the ones that are being developed already, will people need to go back and reconsider some of what they have been doing in light of NPF4?

I am aware that a town near where I live has been very busy on what would not have been called a local place plan, as they did not exist for some years. Very good work is being done, but people will probably have to go back and see how it works with NPF4.

We will now go to Annie Wells, who has a question or two.

We move on to our second panel. We are joined online by Ailsa Raeburn, chair of Community Land Scotland; Clare Symonds, founder and chair of Planning Democracy; and Bruce Wilson, head of policy and advocacy at the Scottish Wildlife Trust, who is appearing on behalf of Scottish Environment LINK. We are joined in the room by Liz Hamilton, director of planning at Homes for Scotland, and Morag Watson, director of policy at Scottish Renewables.

I welcome you all to this long-awaited session. I would like to begin with a broad overview. Will you give us your views on the key changes that have been made in the revised draft NPF4? I ask Morag Watson to go first.

We will run through the questions that colleagues have and, I hope, you will be able to bring up those policy specifics at the time. If not or if we run out of time, we would welcome them in writing. I think that this panel has a lot to say.