This has been a colossal waste of money and should be scrapped immediately.

To date, the cost of this exercise in super-bureaucracy has been over £45 million.

What do we have to show for this money?

As best I can make out, we have four groups of Park Rangers who don't have the training or the equipment to do their jobs.

If bad guys from Glasgow show up, the Rangers head in the opposite direction.

In Principle, a National Park is a great idea. In America, the National Park system protects the natural environmental treasures of the country.

John Muir from Dunbar was a major influence in setting up the American National Parks because of his interest in Yosemite in the Californian Sierra Mountains. The timing was right. The lands to the West of the Mississippi were undeveloped and the National Parks protected those resources from commercial development and exploitation.

In Scotland, we have a different situation. We had an administrative structure that was doing a reasonable job of looking after things. We now have an additional layer of bureacracy soaking up money and the energy and enthusiasm of those who have to deal with them.

It wouldn't be so bad, if they were taking care of basic and essential things.

The bit of old road that runs from Cameron House Hotel to Lomond Castle Hotel is one of the few places on the A82 where you can pull off, stop and enjoy the view over the loch to Inchmurrin and Ben Lomond. On any summer day the cut off is busy with tourists enjoying the best Scotland has to offer.

It is a fact of life that human beings have to go to the toilet from time to time. If Scotland is to welcome visitors, we have to provide clean comfortable toilet facilities.

There is a toilet next to the car park at Duck Bay. It is boarded up and has a sign indicating that it is open from March to October.

Earlier in the year, I did some checking. After calls to Argyll and Bute Council, the Loch Lomond & Trossachs Park Authority and West Dumbartonshire Council with everybody in denial it eventually emerged that these toilets are the responsibility of Argyll and Bute.

Argyll and Bute are going to do something about it. They are going to take the sign down!

The nearest toilets are in Luss or Balloch.

£45 million and they can't even keep the toilets open.

Three years on and what has changed?

Not a lot.

The annual budget for the Park is around £8 million so the total spend is now about £69 million.

Skilled workers are leaving the area due to frustration and anger over restrictive decisions by the Park Planing Department.

There is an argument between the Park Authority and Argyll and Bute Council over who is responsible for the Loch Lomond foreshore. In the meantime, nobody is picking up rubbish on the shore. At Duck Bay, parts of the shore look more like a rubbish tip than Scotland's main tourist attraction.

There are no public toilets at Duck Bay. The nearest toilets are in Balloch or Luss. On any sunny day, the Duck Bay cut off on the old A82 is a favourite place for families to relax, enjoy the scenery, have a picnic and play. The lack of toilets creates conflict between visitors and the businesses in the area who have no responsibility to provide toilet facilities.

The Visitor Centre in Luss is closed (although the toilets are open).

The Park Authority should be encouraging people to visit The Park, instead, they are proposing charging for car parking.

Loch Lomond is Scotland's best known scenic area. The Park Authority have failed in their duty to keep it clean and provide facilities for visitors.

The Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park is a level of bureaucracy we don't need.

The money should be spent on other things of direct benefit to the residents of Argyll and Bute.

Some of the money will pay for Argyll and Bute Council to clean the shore of Loch Lomond and provide toilet facilities.