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The response indicates that the decision to revoke an instrument lies with the Executive, which will almost always proceed with a faulty instrument until a new instrument is ready to replace it. The reason for that is that it may well be that aspects of the instrument are needed because they are sound or that items of existing legislation may be about to lapse.
As we enter the final year of the first session of our Parliament, members may consider this an appropriate time to take stock of what we have achieved.
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.