SNP rebel Fergus Ewing calls for Green ministers to be 'recycled to the backbenches'

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SNP rebel Fergus Ewing has urged Humza Yousaf to "recycle his Green ministers to the backbenches".The veteran MSP today criticised the government policy of ending the use of gas boilers in homes and claimed it was slowing down housebuilding.The Scottish Government wants to convert one million homes to low or zero-emission heating by 2030.Ewing called on Yousaf to "consign the Green Party half-baked, pie-in-the-sky policy in the bin where it belongs".SNP MSPs previously voted to suspend Ewing from the group in September after he supported a motion of no confidence in Scottish Green minister Lorna Slater.He has been an outspoken critic of the coalition between the SNP and the Scottish Greens, called the Bute House Agreement.He was vocally against the now dumped Highly Protected Marine Areas and Deposit Return Scheme policies.First Minister Yousaf dismissed Ewing's comments in his response.Ewing said during First Minister's Questions: "We all agree that there is an acute housing shortage in this country."Yet Homes for Scotland, Cala Homes, Taylor Woodrow and Persimmon, all major housebuilders, have all warned repeatedly that the heat pump targets, especially for new builds, have had the effect of forcing up costs of housebuilding so that fewer homes are being built in Scotland."So, if the First Minister wants to tackle the housing shortage, will he consign the Green Party half-baked, pie-in-the-sky policy in the bin where it belongs, alongside the deposit return [scheme] and Highly Protected Marine Areas?"And will he recycle his Green ministers to the backbenches where they belong?"And then meet with industry and real experts, actual experts to work out a plan to solve the problem?"Yousaf replied: "Perhaps the applause from