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We should look at what we can do to encourage allied professionals to have a greater and more proactive role in the community. That may be a shift that the cabinet secretary could, in line with integration, look at in more depth.
We must start with a resolve not to repeat the mistakes of previous attempts—I fear that that may be being done in Highland. I urge the Scottish Government to talk to the joint futures group and everyone involved in that failure to ascertain why it occurred.
The cabinet secretary will recall that, on 7 May, I asked him how much of a role energy from waste would play in reducing the amount of waste that is sent to landfill.
More people will find themselves in financial difficulties and unable to maintain their mortgage payments, so there may well be more pressure from that.
Nevertheless, we might wish to strengthen our powers when, for example, rogue owners strip a building of its internal fabric, which may be of historical and architectural value.