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I am confident that, here in Scotland, and in this chamber today, we are aspiring to the best that those words imply. We are acknowledging the challenges, committing to address them and demanding the best for our children.
We get different types of funding from the UK Government—it is not all grant funding; some of it is loan funding—and we have to look at how we can best use that funding to deliver affordable homes.
It is fair to say that we did not take the route of everyone having to have a justice centre; we wanted to allow local partners to design what they felt best reflected their particular circumstances.
I am pretty clear that the relevant local authorities are best placed to consider that. From what I have seen from the evidence that the five local authorities have submitted, they have made it clear that resources are already pretty stretched.
I am not trying to suggest that people will behave logically or in their own best interests at every juncture; I am just saying that that adds to the complication of interpreting what happens in other countries.
On retrospection, are you comfortable that all the provisions have been translated in the best way? There are some things on which we want to change the general law of the land and to affect every will that is thereafter brought into effect but, on other matters, we would not want somebody who has drawn up a will to have to change it because the law has bee...
Is there a role for that publication to be used to disseminate best practice among RSLs? We have always said that our role as a regulator is not just to highlight weaknesses and bad practice, but to highlight good practice.