Chamber and committees

Thank you for finding the relevant document. We move to questions from Willie Coffey.

That concludes our questions. Thank you, minister, for coming in. It has been helpful and illuminating to hear what you have had to say.

I suspend the meeting briefly for our visitors to leave the room.

We now move to questions from Marie McNair, who is joining us online.

I will bring in Willie Coffey. We are running out of time, so I ask you to direct your questions to specific people. That would be fantastic.

Thank you. We will move to questions from Mark Griffin.

Will you expand a little on what you mean by “cost neutral”, as I am curious about that?

I am interested in the Government’s response to the City of Edinburgh Council’s view that the bill is not just reforming social care; it is reforming local government. You have a background in local government, so we would love to hear from you about that.

We have a number of questions to cover in the time that we have together. Therefore, I would appreciate members keeping their questions brief and the minister’s answers also being brief. We might cover the answers to some questions in answers to others.

At the start of the meeting, we agreed to take the next two items in private. As we have no more public business, I close the public part of the meeting.