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Is getting an infusion of money in order to allow decisions not just to do remediation but, potentially, to replace buildings because that represents better value within the scope of the discussions with the UK Government?

Thanks for that. Marie McNair is next.

Okay—thank you. Miles Briggs is next.

The next item on our agenda is consideration of two negative instruments. Do members have any comments on the instruments?

As no members have any comments, does the committee agree that we do not wish to make any recommendations in relation to the instruments?

Members indicated agreement.

We agreed at the start of the meeting to take the next items in private, so, as that was the last public item on our agenda for today, I now close the public part of the meeting.

We have got to take a nuanced approach, Willie.

Agenda item 2 is to take evidence from two panels on reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, which is otherwise known as RAAC.

The first panel will be in round-table format. We are joined in the room by David Baird, property service manager for West Lothian Council; Peter Drummond, chair of practice committee for the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland; Paul Jones, strategic asset improvement manager for the City of Edinburgh Council; Ailsa Macfarlane, director of Built Environment Forum Scotland; Iain Morris, acting director of asset management for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service; and Peter Watton, service director for the City of Edinburgh Council, who is representing the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers.

We are joined online by Stephen Booth, chief officer of corporate landlord at Aberdeen City Council; Professor Chris Goodier, member of the senior leadership team at the school of architecture at Loughborough University; Martin Liddell, chair of the study group for the Institution of Structural Engineers; Paul Livesey, scheme manager at Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures UK—CROSS-UK; and Sam Piplica, senior specialist in building for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

I welcome our witnesses to the meeting. I want to begin our conversation by inviting everyone to introduce themselves very briefly. I will begin: I am an MSP for the Highlands and Islands.

Thanks—that was very helpful. I call Martin Liddell.

Great. Thanks very much for that.

I now bring in Mark Griffin, who is joining us online.

Yes. I will bring in Professor Chris Goodier and then Martin Liddell.