There is no doubt that the cabinet secretary would want to talk to COSLA, but I do not think that he has been listening to it. The Scottish Government has revealed that it is spending almost £1 million a month on civil servants working on the bill. More than £2 million has been spent on private sector consultants. The cost to date has been well over £10 million, and all that we have to show is botched legislation that very few people support and which will not make a difference to social care now.

At the same time, care packages are being cut, direct payments are being slashed, services are being removed and staff are leaving. Councillor Chris Cunningham has appealed to the Scottish National Party Government for help to fill the £112 million black hole in the health and social care budget for Glasgow. That is the story in health and social care partnerships across Scotland. What will the cabinet secretary do to help social care right now, before it runs into more difficulty?