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On staffing, is it just dentists that you are missing, or is it nurses and hygienists, too? Is it across the board?

Does anybody want to add anything to that, or are you all content?

I think that we will be looking at the model for how dentistry works next week, so we will be able to expand on that.

Thank you all very much for giving us your time this morning. If there are any other issues that you want to raise with us, the clerks will be happy to liaise with you.

I see that Declan Gilmore wants to come in again.

Possibly—I will come back to you.

Are you confident that you can get the levels back up to where they were before the pandemic?

That brings me back to Alex Hogg’s point about the training and professionalism of the people carrying out those acts. Would not training be part of the process?

Mike Flynn has already answered my question, thank you.

Can I put one further example that has been put to me? As a former sheep farmer, I may have had the desire to shoot a white-tailed eagle because it was lifting lambs. I would be fined and possibly imprisoned, and I would face the full force of the law, whatever that happened to be, but I would not be stopped from farming sheep. If I am a grouse moor manager and I do something and the licence is removed, I am effectively stopped from carrying out my way of making a living. Would that issue fall under the ECHR?

Yes. Professor Werritty, are you aware of any concerns that have been raised by stakeholders that the provisions in the bill on licensing may not be compliant with the ECHR, for example, due the potential of disproportionate interference with property rights?

Let us presume that the hoops are dead easy, you just apply for the licence and you get it. I think that you were suggesting that a heavy-handed NatureScot person could impose certain restrictions. At what point does that breach ECHR?