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I invite Stephanie Callaghan MSP to declare any relevant interests.

That is great—thanks. We will certainly get into some more detail. I invite Stephanie Callaghan to ask some questions.

Brilliant. Thank you very much; that is very helpful. I will come to Sheila Gilmore now. To jog your memory, my questions are: how important is tourism to your local area? How have you done in terms of recovering from Covid-19? What are your general thoughts—positive or negative—on the visitor levy? I ask that you stick to those, as there will be other questions that will get much more into the detail. Thanks.

You say that the cash is an optional payment on departure. Is it optional to collect it or optional to give it?

Thank you for highlighting that. It is also about giving local authorities powers and the choice of whether to exercise those powers.

Here we are—we have the expert group in front of us.

Sheila Gilmore wants to come in again.

Thank you. Obviously, people have figured out how to do that in Europe and elsewhere, so I hope that we can figure it out in Scotland.

Thank you very much for that. Before I bring in Miles Briggs, I remind Sarah Maclean and Cathy Earnshaw that they should indicate if they want to come in—it is hard for us to know if people who are online want to speak, but I definitely want to hear from you as well.

Thank you very much for that. That is very useful. Willie Coffey would like to come in.