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If the care standards will be scrutinised by this committee and the lead committee, that is as good as it will get. I have no criticism about that.I do not know whether the Executive can lodge an amendment between now and the start of stage 3.
I hope that it does not get subsumed in the maw of Scottish Enterprise, because it would be of a very different character from the kind of thing in which Scottish Enterprise gets involved.
I suggest that I write to the Executive, asking it to provide us with the information that we need. When we get a response, it can be circulated to members.
In practice, a report's findings have appeared before the committee has had a chance to read them. In fact, we do not get to see a report until the commissioner sends it to us.
I can envisage a scenario where one would get a ticket—as I did yesterday—for parking a car without having the appropriate time on the ticket, or for giving false details and so on.
However, if David Davidson, for example, gets £10,000 and I get £6,000, I might be seriously unhappy because I am still working and he is not—or whatever the case may be.
Predominantly, those people are single adults who are homeless but do not have a priority need.We do our best to ensure that those individuals get accommodation. As I said, there are things that the council can do—providing rent deposits, for example—to facilitate people getting accommodation.