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The operational responsibility for allocating houses must be transferred to new community landlords if they are genuinely to have control over their own affairs.
The potential numbers of landlords and tenants to whom we would have access through the new regime and any other actions mean that additional resources would be required.
First, paragraph 2.4 of the paper on the meeting between Executive officials and the voluntary sector refers to the supervision of new recruits pending disclosure and raises the issue of the demand for retrospective checks on people who are in post, so that they can supervise new recruits.
Our agenda should not always be driven by the Edinburgh Evening News. It is not just the Edinburgh Evening News—which has done an excellent job—that is raising this issue.
Has the committee ever considered whether amendments that are basically new motions should be accepted for debate and whether only genuine amendments should be allowed?
It is not just Speyside or islands such as Islay and Jura, which George Lyon mentioned, that will be affected by the new tax on the whisky industry; areas such as Dumbarton, Dalmuir, Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire will be hit, too.