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The Executive has decided to withdraw its current draft and lay a new draft order in the new year. I suggest that we bring the Executive's response to the attention of the Parliament and the lead committee.
Let me make it clear to tenants in Highland and in Inverclyde that it is not; it is community ownership, new opportunities for tenant involvement and new opportunities for greater investment and stable rents in the years to come.
The third reason is the requirement for sheriffs and part-time sheriffs to chair some of the new Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland tribunals that were introduced earlier this year.
Interests Before we move on to the next agenda item, I should point out that I did not ask the new—or, should I say, recidivist—member of the committee, Phil Gallie, whether he would like to make a declaration of interests.
I welcome the chance to come to the committee today particularly because of the timing. Some of you might have heard the news item on "Good Morning Scotland" about the Aberdeen drop-in centre.
We will monitor all the bill's provisions, as we would with any new bill. Again, it is evident from earlier bills that, where there are problems, the new democracy operates by MSPs being asked by their constituents to take the problems into account.