Seòmar agus comataidhean

Thank you very much. That shows that I did not recognise greylags, either.

Okay. Thanks for that clarity. That shows my lack of knowledge of geese, despite the fact that I have been bird watching all my life.

Why is the problem predominantly on an island off the west coast? I live under the Loch Leven flight path, in which vast numbers of geese head to grazing grounds, but I have no constituency issues relating to that; people do not contact me to say that we need to get rid of greylag geese. Malt and barley are grown in Perthshire, by the way. Why are there not the same problems on the mainland that seem to exist on the west coast and the islands?

Aye—but if it is okay I will go back to Rae McKenzie first, on a practical thought process that went through my head while she was answering Jenni Minto’s questions. I presume that annex 1 and annex 2 birds do not fly separately and that they are in the same flocks. How do the shooters ensure that they shoot annex 2 birds only? Do they do that by rifle or by shotgun?

[Inaudible.]—do you want to add anything to that?

I have a quick supplementary to that—Hannah Randolph and Tony Wilson might be best placed to answer it.

We have talked about employment churn and workforce churn in areas such as agriculture, hospitality and the care sector, where people have stopped working for a period of time and then thought, “Actually, my previous lifestyle doesn’t suit me any more.” Hannah, in your submission, you say:

“People will be encouraged to re-enter the labour market if they see a healthy, buoyant jobs market.”

Someone could walk into any pub, club or care home anywhere in the country right now and be offered a job, because they are crying out for people. How do we square the facts that employers are desperate for workers but some people are in the inactivity grouping that we are discussing in our inquiry?

I have a final, small point on the loss and inactivity of over-50s. Louise Murphy might want to jump in on it. It feels to me like the workforce is losing a huge amount of experience if those people have dropped out of the labour market and are not coming back again. Louise Murphy said that we should not bother chasing them, but I counter that by saying that we are losing decades of experience from the workforce, so should we not try to get those people back into the labour market?

That is an interesting take; I will regurgitate that one at a later date.

That slightly concerns me, with regard to industries such as hospitality and the care service. Creating flexibility in such jobs will be especially difficult given that workers have to be there.

Louise Murphy, do you want to come in on that point?

Before you go on to your third point, I want to say that that is a really important point. Sectors need to work to re-attract people. You used to be able to fill a job in hospitality pretty rapidly, but now you cannot, because people have moved. They might not be out of the labour market, but that sector is suffering.

Yes.