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Can Catriona Radcliffe provide the Beijing office perspective on that?

I welcome the progress that has been made across Scotland in rolling out 20mph speed limits, not just in Fife but in the Borders and the Highlands. All councils now have a detailed plan for how they will implement the roll-out of such limits across their areas, getting us closer to the target of ensuring that all appropriate roads have those limits by 2025. Given that the Scottish Government has not decided to go down the route of changing the 30mph default speed limit to 20mph, how will the minister ensure that there is consistency between councils and that there are adequate resources to get the job done, so that communities that need 20mph limits to create safer streets can have them and that we can move forward together?

I just want to make a brief point, convener, to pick up on what Elspeth Macdonald and Tavish Scott said about strategic environmental assessments. At what level would you wish to be more involved in that: at screening stage, scoping stage or development of the environmental reports? I am trying to understand what the missing bit of engagement is and how appropriate it is for you to be involved at different stages. Given what Tavish Scott said about not having enough staff to go to every single meeting, how involved can you be in the science and setting the baselines that are required through that kind of process? What did you feel was missing through your engagement in that SEA process?

It is indeed. I am left-handed, so I work that way.

Fundamentally, though, do your members see the need for restoration in the inshore?

Climate change is a factor as well—

Perhaps, you are jumping on that as one potential way forward. The whole point of a just transition is that it is led by workers and people in those sectors, so they come up with the solutions, whether it be for sea lice or biodiversity impact, and they use their technical innovation skills to do that.

I do not know what the solutions are for your sector—I do not work in that area—but is there something about the principle of asking, because we have strict biodiversity targets and we need to move forward, how we involve sectors in that change? How do we deliver the change that, I think, you acknowledge needs to happen? It is the same for fisheries as it is for the energy sector. How can such change be driven by the sectors themselves in a way that is just, rather than them just saying, “We do not want the change”?

Thanks for those reflections.

Thank you. Elspeth—

—in relation to the wider ecological health of our oceans.