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You would dismiss Professor Ó Giollagáin’s comments that the bill is not good enough and that, in effect, we should scrap the Gaelic elements of it.

Okay, so you are maybe not dismissing them. What are your comments on Professor Ó Giollagáin’s remarks, then?

What is stopping people doing that now?

I am a bit confused by that. You have said that the bill is important, but you are also saying that his remarks that the Gaelic bits of the bill should be removed—

I am struggling with what the area of linguistic significance is and what it will actually do. Donald Macleod was talking about the secondary legislation that might fill in some of the gaps. If I arrive in an area of linguistic significance, what will I see, feel and hear that is different, other than a sign on an entrance to a village? I hope that Donald can tell me what it will look like.

Is anything stopping you from doing that now?

You have given me lots of stuff there, but you have not told me what it will feel like. You are in charge. Let us say that you are in charge of driving the policy and that you are making suggestions to the community. What would you suggest should be done?

With the convener’s permission, I will bring in Liam Kerr, who might have a question about that.

Do you? Ah, right—okay.

Is that just you, though?