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New Scottish building standards have been expected for a time, which has allowed the industry to work out the best solution to meeting those standards.
The policy of successive Administrations has been that those issues are best dealt with by the professionalism and expertise of the funding council, free from political interference.
The minister deserves to have the opportunity to respond to any other evidence that we take, so the usual practice is probably the best one. I hope that we can agree. The matter is urgent and needs to be discussed, but fitting it into an already crowded timetable is probably not the best way to deal with it.