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For the benefit of the public, the press and fellow MSPs who are not members of the committee I will set out clearly the focus of our evidence session today.
We need a bill and orders that deliver that.We accept all the points that MSPs have made. When we examine the detail, we will take the matter on board as a priority.
However, I repeat that homeless families are a priority-need category, and have been throughout my years as an MP and as an MSP. It is nothing new that families have those rights.
First, I am always fascinated when I am grilled on those issues by MSPs from parties that do not have the proposals in their manifestos and are not committed to funding them.
Some structural changes could be made—that is not for us to say—but customers need to have a strong voice in the process and, apart from through MSPs and ministers, they tend not to be heard.
It might be interesting to know how many MSP departures you are budgeting for, but my real question is why we are pushing up the contingency fund so much.