Chamber and committees

We move to a theme that we have already touched on: concessionary fares and transport costs.

I thank both witnesses for setting out the reality on the ground as it is at the moment and your concerns for the future.

I will bring in Jeremy Balfour.

I will hand over to Pam Duncan-Glancy, and if Danny wants to, he can wrap his response to that question into his answers to Pam.

We will start with Danny Boyle.

Frank McKillop, from your perspective and that of the people whom Enable supports, do you have anything that you want to mention in relation to homelessness?

In RSLs and councils, there is delegated authority for heads of housing to buy back ex-local authority properties as soon as they see that they are on the market. The question is how we make that quicker and bring pace to it.

Yes, especially when it comes to bigger properties. That has been done in the past when looking for a four-bedroom property.

Thanks. It is important to hear a response from both witnesses on that question, so I turn to Graham O’Neill.

I thank the Deputy First Minister and his officials for making the very early start this morning. We will consider the evidence that we have heard under agenda item 4.

I suspend the meeting for a brief comfort break and for witnesses to change over.

We move on to our next set of questions, and I hand over to my colleague Emma Roddick.