Hansard

The Convener: SNP

Item 3 is the continuation of our stage 2 consideration of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Bill. I welcome to the committee Colin Boyd QC, who is here in pla...

Section 50—Sheltered housing

The Convener: SNP

Although the first group of amendments appears to be tricky, it is not the tricky part of proceedings to which I referred—there are trickier things ahead. Am...

Mr Kenneth Macintosh (Eastwood) (Lab): Lab

I hope that I am successful in juggling the paperwork. I thank the convener and the committee for their patience in allowing me to move my amendments this we...

The Convener: SNP

Have you moved amendment 227?

Mr Macintosh: Lab

Do you want me to move it now?

The Convener: SNP

You are required to move it.

Mr Macintosh: Lab

Will we then debate it?

The Convener: SNP

After we have heard the minister's reply, you may, if you wish, seek the committee's leave to withdraw the amendment.

Mr Macintosh: Lab

In that case, I move amendment 227.

Michael Matheson: SNP

The principal reason behind amendment 7 is similar to the concerns that Ken Macintosh expressed about the bill's definition of sheltered housing. The Lord Ad...

Brian Adam (North-East Scotland) (SNP): SNP

As Kenneth Macintosh said at the beginning, the amendments in the group—except obviously the Executive ones—are the result of extensive discussions with thos...

The Convener: SNP

Heaven forfend, Mr Adam.

Brian Adam: SNP

The potential would exist even for unclever lawyers or developers to remove a warden service as a burden if they did not see the service as being in their in...

Mr Macintosh: Lab

I would like to move amendment 118, to which I did not speak earlier.

The Convener: SNP

That should be amendment 228 and you do not move it now.

Mr Macintosh: Lab

I do not think that I have spoken to amendment 228 or to amendment 118.

The Convener: SNP

What normally happens is that when I call an amendment, you would speak to it and to the other amendments in the group. However, you may speak to amendment 2...

Mr Macintosh: Lab

Amendment 228 is in the name of Sylvia Jackson. I apologise that she is unable to be here. The amendment is in the same spirit as Michael Matheson's amendmen...

The Convener: SNP

However, as you say, those who are 60 or near 60, can be chipper. They were the Elvis Presley people, you know. The Lord Advocate is far too young to be an E...

The Lord Advocate (Colin Boyd):

Amendment 115 is a technical amendment that will ensure that the new rights that are created by the bill will not include a right of pre-emption. Such a righ...

The Convener: SNP

Amendment 228 has not yet been moved, as it relates to another section. It may be moved later.

The Lord Advocate:

There has been anxiety about the definition of sheltered housing and a worry that the definition might exclude what is termed "retirement housing". The issue...

The Convener: SNP

What do mean when you talk about redefining? Are you talking about changing at stage 3 the definition of sheltered housing?

The Lord Advocate:

I would be open to discussing that with Ken Macintosh. I have difficulties with including retirement housing in the definition, but we might be able to discu...

The Convener: SNP

Other committee members are concerned about the definition. I open the discussion to committee members, who might wish to make comments in the light of what ...

Donald Gorrie: LD

I think that I understand what the Lord Advocate said about the difficulty with the definition. I wish to mention another difficulty with the definition in s...

Michael Matheson: SNP

I return to what the Lord Advocate said about the possibility of revisiting the use of the phrase "sheltered housing". If we consider rephrasing the bill and...

The Convener: SNP

Do you wish to address those questions now, Lord Advocate, or do you want to hear other points?

The Lord Advocate:

As this is my first time dealing with amendments at stage 2, I am in the convener's hands.