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Does that give you confidence that the bill, should it go to a stage 3 vote and be passed, could be implemented sooner rather than later, and certainly within the 12-month implementation date in the bill? We are due to discuss the implementation date.
I will not look for further answers on that point just now, but it would be good to be kept up to date with examples of stakeholders being able to see across the Government.
I am mindful of SNIB’s evidence to the committee that, because of year-end, there is a hard date. It cited a specific example of when it was trying to close a deal before year-end.
To take the Sighthill example, the land remediation at Sighthill relates to the fact that there used to be a munitions factory there, which dated back to the French revolution. Some of the projects that we are talking about have been on the shelf before shelves existed.
An example from last year, or the year before, is that there was quite a lot of debate about use-by dates and best-before dates and whether we should get rid of them.
We are all ambitious to have more accessible homes, and we all think that the housing for varying need guidance is dated and needs to reflect the needs of people in their homes in Scotland today.