Petition PE123 is on behalf of the Scottish warm homes campaign. The Social Justice Committee is in the process of preparing its response to the Executive and we will in due course be sent a copy of that. That might be a better time for us to decide whether we want to add anything. Obviously, we have already had input into the Social Justice Committee's report in that we passed on the work that had already been done by Dorothy-Grace Elder and, originally, Malcolm Chisholm. Shall we return this matter to the agenda as and when the Social Justice Committee completes its report?
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Fuel Poverty (PE123)
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Choose an MSP to read only their contributions- Margaret Smith LD 3
- Dorothy-Grace Elder Ind 2
- John McAllion Lab 1
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7 contributionsThe consideration of the draft report is on the Social Justice Committee's agenda this morning. If the draft report is approved today, it will be too late for us to do anything about it.
My report was submitted just over a year ago, so I do not know how much of it is outdated, given the Executive's subsequent efforts.
Have we asked the Scottish warm homes campaign whether it requires anything to be done other than what the Social Justice Committee is doing? A parliamentary committee is dealing with the matter and is responding to the Executive and raising issues that were raised by this committee. I do not know what the Health and Community Care Committee could usefully add at this stage. It might be worth while simply waiting until the Executive responds to the Social Justice Committee's comments.
The main concern relates to the Executive's plans for central heating and whether it can meet its modest targets. There is some doubt about whether there will be enough workmen to meet the targets. The colleges who train such workers tell me that they are not training enough people.
I believe that those issues have been raised in the Social Justice Committee report. If they have not, we will raise them separately. Are we all agreed to keep the matter on hold until we get a response from the Executive to the Social Justice Committee's report?
Members indicated agreement.
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