Chamber and committees

We will carry on, because we are very short of time.

I will touch briefly on spatial planning. You referred to seaweed, but we also have to consider inshore fisheries with mobile and static gear, as well as renewables and cockle and mussel fisheries. As one of the starting points, do we need to look at the whole spatial planning issue and the pressures that all those different sectors could bring to our inshore marine environment?

Thank you. We have touched on resources, which naturally leads us to finance. Alasdair Allan has some questions on that.

The last thing that we want is a law that has first to be tested in the courts, including on appeal. We want laws that are fit for purpose.

Sara Shaw, I ask you the same question. Will the concept of intent cause a difficulty for you? If not daily, every week, as I have said, people will use dogs for the shooting of game such as pheasants. It is inevitable that that will cause rabbits and, potentially, other mammals to come in front of a gun.

I will bring in Ariane Burgess next. I remind members that we have about 15 minutes left to ask a further 10 questions, so I ask everyone to keep their questions nice and succinct.

We move on to questions about the prohibition of trail hunting.

We will move on to questions on enforcement, which is covered in part 3 of the bill.

Robbie Kernahan indicated that he would like to comment on the previous question.

I ask Michael Clancy for his views on those points.

Have you covered your second question?