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I think that Andrew Fyfe wants to come back on that.

I want to explore the points that Nicola Barclay and Tony Aitken made about deliverability, which is key, and flexibility. Are mechanisms in place for local authorities and the Scottish Government to review delivery? We can produce a plan, but various things can happen—for example, there might be infrastructure issues, or demand might drop. Is there a requirement for a formal review to ensure that what was set out was delivered, given that, if we fall short, we will exacerbate the problems that we have been talking about?

Will you clarify how you got to that figure, so that we understand that? As you mentioned, it is important to understand what the demand is. This takes us back to Nicola Barclay’s point about the HNDA. We need to understand the demand and the need for extra housing with care. Will you give us a little bit of background on how you got to that figure?

Yes. It is for Andrew Fyfe, who mentioned the delivery of housing to meet the needs of older and disabled people and touched on some of the issues with that. Are there any specific changes that you would like to see in NPF4 that you believe would help with that? I think that you are right, given that we have a growing elderly population. What changes would you like to see that would make it easier for local authorities to provide such housing and help us to meet our national targets?

Before I ask others to come in, convener, I should declare an interest as a serving councillor on East Lothian Council. I forgot to mention that at the start.

I see that Tony Cain would like to respond.

I think that the key thing is to make sure that we can do that. You are right that, from a council point of view, the key thing is how the Scottish Government ties into that and ensures that there is deliverability. We need to deliver—

I think that we will touch on that in some of the later questions. No doubt it will come up.

I ask Anthony Aitken to come in on that.

I nominate Willie Coffey.

Willie Coffey was chosen as deputy convener.

That is very helpful. Thank you.

Thank you.