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Of course.

I suspend the meeting to allow for a changeover of panels.

Thank you for your statement, minister.

How do you intend to evaluate and monitor the impact of the payment reform?

Agenda item 4 is an evidence session on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill. We will hear from representatives of local government and integration joint boards. I welcome to the meeting Eddie Follan, who is the chief officer in health and social care at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities; Eddie Fraser, who is the chief executive of East Ayrshire Council and is representing the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers Scotland; and Professor Soumen Sengupta, who is the director of health and social care in South Lanarkshire health and social care partnership and is representing the Health and Social Care Scotland chief officers group. We move straight to questions.

We move on to our final theme, with questions from Paul Sweeney.

Thank you for those comments. Obviously, they will now be part of the Official Report.

I propose that the committee make no recommendations in relation to the instrument. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

Agenda item 3 is consideration of two negative instruments, the first of which is the instrument on which we have just taken ministerial evidence. The purpose of the instrument is to make specific changes to existing regulations to support payment reform and to make the miscellaneous changes that the Government had intended to make at the next opportunity of amending the existing regulations.

You are straying from my question, which was about such organisations being on a governance board. Can you offer an opinion on whether they should be involved? I have heard about the importance and regard that you give them, but I do not know whether you think that they should be in the room.

I thank the minister and her officials for attending today.

Thank you.