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You are absolutely right that highly specialist technical skills are needed in some cases, which may not be readily available in the NHS Scotland workforce—indeed, having such an in-house resource may not be cost effective.
We previously considered the petition in May, when we agreed to write to the Scottish Government, COSLA, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations and Shelter Scotland.
That is joint governance, and deliberately so. I may not be giving you exactly the answer that you are looking for, but that is the answer as it currently is.
For this year’s allocation, the process was extended because of other issues, so it was mid to late May before the health board was in final receipt of its total allocations and its gross income for 2016-17.
Before we move to the first agenda item, I remind everyone present to switch off mobile phones, because they may affect the broadcasting system. However, you may notice during the meeting that some committee members are using tablets.