With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 21, 22 and 23 together.
With the full co-operation of the Scottish authorities and as a follow-up to his visit of last June, the agricultural councellor of the London Embassy visited farms in the Lothians and Berwickshire from the 13th to the 15th October to inspect the conditions of the Irish seasonal workers.
He found that, in general, the position of these workers was continuing to improve, that there was an awareness of their conditions both among Scottish officials and the public and he received assurances that, where necessary, pressure would be kept on local authorities to adopt modern sanitary regulations.