How to sum up and end such a long and thorough process in three minutes? I will do so first by thanking all my colleagues on the Communities Committee, all the MSPs who are not on the committee but who got involved in the process, and the clerks and other officials. I echo Christine Grahame in recognising the passion with which Johann Lamont has expressed her position throughout the process in her capacity as Deputy Minister for Communities. I wish her well—although perhaps not too well—in her new ministerial role.

I express my thanks and admiration to the many campaigners throughout Scotland who have long called for a fundamentally fairer system, but I express my regret that that is not what we are to have. I would like to knock on the head the notion that to give people greater rights and power within the system would somehow be an inhibitor to public involvement. I want to see the public involvement that the Executive says it is committed to. We would achieve that by giving people a system that they perceive to be fair because it treats them fairly, by giving them some power and by giving them some rights. That way, they would have a reason to get involved in the system at an early stage. That is what we should be achieving.

Even without that, I might have been prepared to settle for the bill if the other challenges that we highlighted had been received with greater flexibility and concern by the Executive; for example, if there was to be been proper scrutiny of the national planning framework, which I do not believe will happen, and if there had been stronger commitments on sustainable development, which might have been enough.

The Scottish Green Party will oppose the bill. We will do so fundamentally because, although we acknowledge that it will achieve one of the Executive's objectives—a more efficient system—we do not believe that it will achieve the other aim of introducing a fairer system.

I finish by agreeing with what Sarah Boyack said when speaking to the final group of amendments a few minutes ago. The Planning etc (Scotland) Bill is fundamentally important. Whether members agree with our position or do not give us the time of day, we all acknowledge the bill's importance. If the Communities Committee's successor committee in the next session has nothing but more new legislation to deal with—as we have had during this session—with no opportunity, beyond a few short ones, to conduct our own inquiries, it will not be able to carry out a full and thorough post-legislative scrutiny of the eventual act. I think that all parties should commit to ensuring that that post-legislative scrutiny is carried out with every bit as much thoroughness, time and consideration as has been given to scrutiny of the Planning etc (Scotland) Bill.