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Those problems are usually related to the ability of disabled people not only to get the finances together to buy a home but to cover the extra cost of buying a home that disabled people face.
That has now been withdrawn and the order has been relaid. The new one is in members' papers. It is suggested that, for completeness, it would be good to put the Executive's responses to the committee's questions into the committee's report.
We think that people there have taken the right decision, as they are going to be able to unlock a huge amount of funding. As he mentioned, some 300 new homes in the Western Isles is good news.
We will develop the matter in discussion with the minister and I hope that we will produce amendments that deal with the committee's comments. Meeting suspended until 15:26 and thereafter continued in private until 16:39.
The money will not be used only for new housing association and local authority developments, but for new developments on private and Forestry Commission Scotland land.