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Good morning, and welcome to the 23rd meeting in 2023 of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee. I remind all members and witnesses to ensure that their devices are on silent and that all notifications are turned off. We have received apologies from Pam Gosal. Mark Griffin is joining us online.

The first item on our agenda is to decide whether to take items 4, 5, 6 and 7 in private. Do members agree to do so?

Members indicated agreement.

Who wants to pick that up?

Thank you. I will bring in Ivan McKee.

Thanks for the clarification.

Thanks for pointing that out for us. Ivan, do you want to come back in?

Thanks very much. I will bring in Paul Jones now.

Okay. I will bring in Willie Coffey.

Towards the end of the earlier session this morning, another issue came up, which focused more on private home owners and the suggestion that, because the original errors were made by the public sector, there should be a Government scheme of assistance. It was even said that, potentially, it should buy people out. The number of people remaining who might have been involved in the right-to-buy scheme was identified as small.

Thank you, both, for highlighting those points, and thank you all for coming in or joining us online for what has been a very useful, enlightening and insightful discussion.

I briefly suspend the meeting to allow for a change of witnesses.

We have reached the end of our questions. We have a few more minutes left if anyone has anything else to say that has not already come to light.