And as difficult as it is to try and keep up what I try to do on the road, like occasionally exercise and try to eat right -- it's tough when the easiest food is pizza -- I just believe so strongly in who we are as a nation.

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But what we are doing is going to through a genuine process of listening to the feedback from the consultation exercise, assembling the data and the information, as everyone would expect us to do and I'll make announcements once the cabinet has considered these issues, later on this year and that's the normal orderly process of government, that the SNP government goes through, moving forward.

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