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Does everyone agree with the need for increased enforcement measures, which I guess would lead to the potential for households to be fined for misusing waste collection services? That may be a question for COSLA first.

You say that you do not have the money to enforce it, but you have to deal with it. You have to spend money on clearing up other people’s mess. Is there not something you could do to try to switch some of that spend to more enforcement as opposed to having to clear up?

Some of them have been answered already, but I will go back to the point that David McCulloch—or perhaps both of you—made about local recycling targets not being the best measure on which to judge councils. Do you agree with that? If not recycling targets, what should we be measuring?

To confirm, your target is still 2030 although legally it will not be required until 2035; is that correct?

Cabinet secretary, I am looking at Transport Scotland’s website and it says:

“By 2030 we will phase out the need to buy new petrol and diesel cars and vans.”

To confirm, has that changed now to 2035 to be in line with the rest of the UK?

Does the white van man who is doing this and fly-tipping even have that licence, or does he not even bother with that?

How do you recommend tightening up that process?

This might be a good time to go to COSLA. Do local authorities have the required resource to police fly-tipping?

I was also a councillor at Aberdeen City Council at the start of this session. That is declared in my entry in the register of members’ interests.

Convener, I was just trying to work out how we would get to the scheme that is laid out in front of us, but I will stop there.