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Rather than send the petition to that committee now, it would be useful for us to keep it until we exhaust some of the points that members have made and see whether we can get a better response and awareness.
He says:"something that is separate, no matter how much it mirrors or is similar to something else, is not equal."That gets to the heart of the petition. Two areas in the Scottish Government's response jump out.
In May, Scottish pensioners were waiting, on average, 114 days to get a new system. They are now waiting 229 days on average—almost eight months—so in many cases the wait is much longer.
There is not a distinction between people who get a house that they currently have the right to buy and people who get a house that they will have the right to buy only in 2012— Well, over time— No, I am not.
That touches on a theme that we have visited on several occasions, regarding whether we are getting value for money. That can be established only by assessing what we get in the end.