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As I said at the outset, the emphasis must be on the positive aspects, recognising that the more successful we are in maintaining people's lives, the more people will live with long-term conditions.
The evidence that the committee heard last week from representatives of those who live in mobile homes and mobile home park owners and from Shelter suggested that the existing legislation needs to be reviewed and that research is needed into who lives in such places and what conditions they live in, to ensure that we have appropriate legislation that protects those who live in such accommodation.
In our experience, people of an older generation generally accept that budgeting is what one does and that one should live within one's means. In today's society, we do not expect anyone to live within their means.
Kenneth Macintosh referred to last week's evidence from Sandy Orr, who said that national companies always lived on the edge. You appear to have a consistent record of living on the right side of that edge, as opposed to some of the others, who live on the wrong side.