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We are not arguing that those staff should not have been accommodated—of course that should have happened—but there may be a doubt over whether the Executive has used the correct powers.
It seems that we should refer the petition to the Local Government Committee. There may well be an amount of tokenism involved, but the person who deals with the issue in most local authorities has a genuine interest in and experience of the subject.
The deadline for responses to the paper is 13 June. As John McAllion may be aware, the Transport and the Environment Committee is conducting an inquiry into the Scottish water industry.
Why is the Executive hell-bent on making a bad situation worse by forcing housing associations to sell off their housing stock? That may seem a good idea to sitting tenants, but it offers a very raw deal indeed for homeless people.
We have received written evidence that we must consider before then, and an adviser may be beneficial. I invite members' comments on the Scottish Parliament information centre paper that has been circulated.
There are people whom I have not yet seen and whom I may not be able to see. Cathy Peattie has done very well to get through this task as quickly as she has.