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Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Chamber
28 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill
I thank Mr Gallie for taking an intervention. Does he agree that, although the Airdrie to Bathgate link will vastly improve rail services across that part of the country, in particular for the people of Blackridge and Plains, who hope to get new stations in the future, the lin...
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Section 37 will allow the authorised undertaker—currently Network Rail—to transfer its functions, obligations and statutory powers to another undertaker. It is not expected that it would want to do that, but the section is necessary to ensure that any new authorised undertaker...
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
In paragraph 391 of our consideration stage report, we confirmed the decision that we took at the preliminary stage that the Crichel Down rules should apply to the promoter as they have been applied to other promoters with earlier private bills. The rules set out the circumsta...
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Taken together, the amendments introduce control over the maximum period in which the promoter can compulsorily acquire land under the bill. At present, the promoter has the power to compulsorily acquire land and rights until 10 years after the date on which the act comes into...
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 22 is a technical amendment relating to section 21(8). It deletes references to the authorised undertaker acquiring interests in land for environmental mitigation, or interests in subsoil, in relation to land that is temporarily acquired during the construction phase...
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendment 21 is a technical amendment that removes from schedule 5 a reference to a plot of land that is no longer required by the promoter for the purposes of the authorised works. The plot of land was required by the promoter to allow access for construction purposes and, af...
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Section 32 provides for the period of compulsory acquisition of land and applies to section 17, which deals with the power to acquire land, and section 19, which relates to the purchase of specific new rights over land. Amendments 19 and 20 improve the drafting of the bill by ...
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Committee
14 Mar 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Section 4 permits the authorised undertaker, when constructing the railway works, to deviate at any place from the levels provided. The authorised undertaker may deviate by up to 3m upwards and downwards. Amendment 2 brings the terminology in section 4 into line with that used...
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
That ends today's business for the public. I ask those who are not members of the committee to leave the room.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Subordinate Legislation
Item 3 is subordinate legislation. There are eight Scottish statutory instruments to consider today under the negative resolution procedure.The Subordinate Legislation Committee has raised no issues in relation to the instruments. However, it wrote to the Executive noting that...
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Free Personal Care
I thank the minister, Adam Rennie and Paul Gray for their attendance.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Free Personal Care
I will wind up the evidence session by asking about the extension of free personal care. One of the recommendations for consideration in our report was that free personal care be extended to those under 65. Given the acknowledgement both by the committee and in the recent repo...
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Free Personal Care
Some councils choose not to hold the records.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Free Personal Care
For clarification, I point out that the zeros in the table indicate that the information is not held centrally, rather than that there is no one on the list.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Free Personal Care
Free personal care is a national policy, so is it not reasonable to give councils national guidelines on such assessments?
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Free Personal Care
As we have stated, the committee welcomes the fact that the report accepts that free personal care has been a successful policy and that the majority of people who have requested care under the scheme have received it"without undue delay or complication."One of the problems th...
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Free Personal Care
I welcome the minister and his officials, Adam Rennie and Paul Gray, to the committee for the second part of today's scrutiny of the Executive's "Evaluation of the Operation and Impact of Free Personal Care". I invite the minister to make an opening statement.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Free Personal Care
Thank you for coming along today. You are welcome to take a seat in the public gallery and listen to the evidence that we take from the Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Free Personal Care
That is reassuring.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Free Personal Care
Thank you. The committee welcomes the fact that you concur with our report. We stated that"the policy of free personal care … has been a success".I note that your report states that "The vast majority" of free personal care recipients"have received their FPC payments or person...
The Deputy Convener (Janis Hughes): Lab Committee
06 Mar 2007
Free Personal Care
I welcome to this afternoon's meeting of the Health Committee Paolo Vestri and the people in the public gallery. We have received apologies from Roseanna Cunningham and Helen Eadie. Kenneth Macintosh will join us as a substitute for Helen Eadie, but he is running a bit late, a...
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Committee
20 Feb 2007
Delegated Powers Scrutiny
Yes.
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
20 Feb 2007
Legacy Paper
I would not be as gushing about round-table meetings as the draft paper is. I do not disagree with the first few paragraphs, which say that we have used the technique successfully in different contexts. Paragraph 43 says that round-table meetings have been "very beneficial". I...
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
20 Feb 2007
Subordinate Legislation
We talked with the previous witnesses about the HMIE inspections that currently take place in nurseries and pre-school education establishments. They are done on a three-yearly basis or more often if felt necessary. Will there be a link between the care commission and HMIE to ...
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Committee
20 Feb 2007
Subordinate Legislation
The witnesses mentioned that they are concerned that, under the draft order, the frequency of inspection would reduce even further. I understand that the point of the order is that the frequency is laid down and, therefore, any further reduction would be subject to a further o...
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Chamber
15 Feb 2007
Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill
Like my committee colleagues, I thank the clerks to the Health Committee for their support throughout our consideration of this at times rather difficult bill. The work that is done in the committees of Parliament is the cornerstone of what we do. Without the hard work and ded...
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
12 Feb 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Yes—but do not you agree that there is a perception that, if someone is working outwith the organisation promoting the bill, that is a better way to allow people to think that their views are being considered and that they are being given a fair hearing?
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
12 Feb 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
I hear what you are saying about your legal responsibilities and about your being different from the promoters of other bills, although I cannot comment on that because I cannot remember who they all were. However, only one of your three arguments stacks up. The argument about...
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
12 Feb 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
To take that a step further, I assume that you envisage the appointment of a project manager who will be responsible for liaison and consultation—as you put it—with communities and other interested parties. We have heard many times today, and at other times, that there are con...
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Committee
12 Feb 2007
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Mr Toner, you said that your council would prefer to make the decision if the promoter proposed working outwith the agreed hours. Would your fear about noise be alleviated if the decision was made by an independent clerk of works, rather than by a person who worked for the pro...
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
06 Feb 2007
Executive Responses
I agree with Stewart Maxwell. We have already given the Executive a go. I do not know what would be gained by writing to it again.
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Committee
06 Feb 2007
Delegated Powers Scrutiny
Yes.
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Committee
06 Feb 2007
Smoking Ban <br />(Public Health Impacts)
You talked about the health impacts of the ban and in your written evidence you mention the increased number of calls to smokeline and the fact that 1 million prescriptions for smoking cessation products were written in March 2006 alone. Perhaps this will be part of the monito...
Janis Hughes: Lab Chamber
25 Jan 2007
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Local Income Tax
Does the minister believe that people are generally aware that their income data would be available to local authorities? Do they understand the implications of that?
7. Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Chamber
25 Jan 2007
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Local Income Tax
To ask the Scottish Executive what personal details would be required for the operation of a local income tax. (S2O-11768)
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Committee
23 Jan 2007
Transposition and Implementation of European Directives Inquiry
As Ken Macintosh says, the paragraph is diplomatically worded. To separate it out or to have a big disagreement about it just complicates the issue. It is probably best to leave it as it is.
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
23 Jan 2007
Treatment of Drug Users
So you think that that figure results not from good managed titration but from GPs underprescribing methadone, perhaps through continuing to prescribe the same dose without doing good follow-up work.
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
23 Jan 2007
Treatment of Drug Users
My question relates to Professor McKeganey's written evidence, what you have said and what Alex MacKinnon said about managed titration of the methadone dose. Professor McKeganey says that"There is very wide ranging variation across Scotland in methadone prescribing"and that"th...
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Committee
23 Jan 2007
Treatment of Drug Users
I am the deputy convener of the committee.
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
28 Nov 2006
Deputy Convener
I propose Ken Macintosh as deputy convener.
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Committee
28 Nov 2006
Interests
I have no relevant interests to declare.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
28 Nov 2006
Subordinate Legislation
No comments have been received from committee members and no motion to annul has been lodged. Do we agree that the committee does not wish to make any recommendation in relation to SSI 2006/542?
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
28 Nov 2006
Subordinate Legislation
We come now to our second piece of subordinate legislation. The Subordinate Legislation Committee considered the regulations this morning.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
28 Nov 2006
Subordinate Legislation
I thank the minister for attending.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
28 Nov 2006
Subordinate Legislation
I therefore ask the minister to move the motion.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
28 Nov 2006
Subordinate Legislation
There seem to be no further questions. The motion will be that we recommend that the draft amendment order be approved. Does any member wish to debate the amendment order?
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
28 Nov 2006
Subordinate Legislation
Do any members wish to question the minister?
The Deputy Convener (Janis Hughes): Lab Committee
28 Nov 2006
Subordinate Legislation
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Health Committee. We have received apologies from Euan Robson, who will be late.Item 1 on our agenda is subordinate legislation and we will consider first the draft Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Skin Piercing and Tattooin...
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Chamber
23 Nov 2006
Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
In my time on the Health Committee, we have scrutinised a raft of legislation on many subjects, and the bill is definitely up there with those that have engendered the most debate. As we have heard, the committee deliberated long and hard over its stage 1 report. It seemed tha...
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
14 Nov 2006
Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill
I acknowledge that.
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
14 Nov 2006
Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill
I understand the principle of nationwide provision. If a main premise of the bill is democratic accountability, it would not be impossible to apply the rules on national elections to special health boards.
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
14 Nov 2006
Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill
I understand that the bill covers only regional health boards. Will you explain why it does not apply to special health boards?
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Committee
14 Nov 2006
Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill
Nanette Milne says that she supports Euan Robson's proposal that we write to the minister, but I am not sure on what basis we would do that. Shona Robison did not say specifically that any quotations were attributed to the minister or to the Executive. If we write to the minis...
Janis Hughes: Lab Chamber
09 Nov 2006
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Electronic Health Records
I am sure that the minister is aware of the necessity of effective information technology in ensuring patient safety and improving patient care, especially when care is provided at various sites. Can he assure me that the appropriate technology to ensure that will be in place ...
4. Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Chamber
09 Nov 2006
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Electronic Health Records
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making in developing electronic health records for national health service patients in Scotland. (S2O-11018)
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
07 Nov 2006
Work Programme 2006-07
I was going to suggest that we consider free personal care and the smoking ban.
Janis Hughes: Lab Committee
07 Nov 2006
Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Under the heading "Delivery", your written submission states:"This Bill would make no difference whatsoever to the achievement of this principal purpose and would, potentially, distract Boards through the implementation of this Bill's proposals."Could you elaborate on what you...
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab Committee
07 Nov 2006
Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
You summed up the situation by saying that there is no such thing as perfect consultation. However, it is not just about consultation. Although it is possible to spend an awful lot of money consulting widely, the problem often lies in how the responses to the consultation are ...
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
31 Oct 2006
Standing Orders
That ends the business in public.
The Deputy Convener: Lab Committee
31 Oct 2006
Standing Orders
Agenda item 2 is the Subordinate Legislation Committee's proposed change to standing order 10.3.2, on the 20-day rule, which would allow the committee some flexibility in reporting to lead committees when a large number of instruments are laid at once, such as before recess, o...
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Chamber

Plenary, 28 Mar 2007

28 Mar 2007 · S2 · Plenary
Item of business
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill
Hughes, Janis Lab Glasgow Rutherglen Watch on SPTV
I thank Mr Gallie for taking an intervention. Does he agree that, although the Airdrie to Bathgate link will vastly improve rail services across that part of the country, in particular for the people of Blackridge and Plains, who hope to get new stations in the future, the link would be greatly enhanced by the creation of Glasgow crossrail, which is the missing link in Scotland's rail network?

In the same item of business

The Presiding Officer (Mr George Reid): NPA
The next item of business is a debate on motion S2M-5760, in the name of Phil Gallie, that the Parliament agrees that the Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked...
Phil Gallie (South of Scotland) (Con): Con
How strange life can be: here we are debating legislation in a building that neither you, Presiding Officer, nor I wanted, in a Parliament that you fought fo...
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab): Lab
I thank Mr Gallie for taking an intervention. Does he agree that, although the Airdrie to Bathgate link will vastly improve rail services across that part of...
Phil Gallie: Con
I could not agree more with Janis Hughes. It is a pity that she will not be here to fight for crossrail in the next session of Parliament. I hope that the me...
The Minister for Transport (Tavish Scott): LD
Such a young Parliament, so many historic events. I pay tribute to Phil Gallie's years of public service. I understand that he was with Cunninghame District ...
Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): SNP
I, too, wish Phil Gallie well for the future. His was a voice that was always heard in this Parliament—albeit sometimes from a sedentary position. We never h...
The Presiding Officer: NPA
You have one minute.
Fergus Ewing: SNP
Thank you very much. I have no complaints about that whatsoever.The minister trespassed somewhat more widely than the confines of the Airdrie-Bathgate Railwa...
Mr David Davidson (North East Scotland) (Con): Con
Consensus is breaking out. I begin with the retiring members who have spoken today. Phil Gallie has been a quiet, mild-mannered man all the way through his p...
Karen Whitefield (Airdrie and Shotts) (Lab): Lab
I am delighted that the last speech that I will make in this Parliament prior to dissolution is on the Airdrie to Bathgate rail line. Mary Mulligan, Bristow ...
Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): SNP
I agree with much of what the member says, but does she agree that it reinforces the lunacy of closing the accident and emergency department at Monklands hos...
Karen Whitefield: Lab
We are talking about a railway line today, and there will be more to discuss during the election campaign than accident and emergency services. However, my v...
Mark Ballard (Lothians) (Green): Green
Fergus Ewing and David Davidson began their speeches by talking about the consensus that has broken out in the chamber. When they are feeling so consensual, ...
Mrs Mary Mulligan (Linlithgow) (Lab): Lab
Like many members, I am delighted to have reached the final stage of the legislative process and I look forward to the reopening of the Airdrie to Bathgate l...
Phil Gallie: Con
I understand the point that Mary Mulligan makes about train companies not liking trains stopping. They think that too many stops reduce the number of custome...
Mrs Mulligan: Lab
Absolutely. I have always contended that, with a bit of imaginative thought, Network Rail could have planned a timetable that would have allowed that, partic...
Fiona Hyslop (Lothians) (SNP): SNP
On behalf of my constituents in the Lothians, I thank the committee for its diligence. It has served the people of West Lothian and Lanarkshire well in its d...
Jeremy Purvis (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale) (LD): LD
Did the shadow transport minister visit Plains as well?
Fiona Hyslop: SNP
I am sorry. I did not quite catch what the member said. It is important that we recognise—
Jeremy Purvis rose— LD
Fiona Hyslop: SNP
Sorry. I will give way.
Jeremy Purvis: LD
Did the shadow transport minister visit Plains as well?
Fiona Hyslop: SNP
I think that there is an outstanding invitation. I represent the Lothians. Not only did Fergus Ewing visit Blackridge, he visited the Avon gorge, which has o...
Jeremy Purvis (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale) (LD): LD
With regard to how strategic a view the Scottish National Party takes of this and other transport projects, the fact that the shadow transport minister visit...
Bristow Muldoon (Livingston) (Lab): Lab
I agree with many previous speakers, including Karen Whitefield and Mary Mulligan, that the project will bring economic, environmental, social and educationa...
Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): SNP
At the risk of repetition, I repeat what I said last week in the chamber: as a resident of Ayr, I vouch that Phil Gallie is the best member of Parliament tha...
Elaine Smith (Coatbridge and Chryston) (Lab): Lab
Does the member agree that the line will also very much benefit the people of Coatbridge?
Alex Neil: SNP
Of course I do. Indeed, that will be a very important consideration, particularly over the next five weeks. This project, which will involve public sector in...
Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con): Con
I support this much-wanted bill, which provides for the reopening of the former Airdrie to Bathgate line by re-laying missing track between Bathgate and Drum...
Donald Gorrie (Central Scotland) (LD): LD
I congratulate the committee, which has clearly done a good job, and which, by studying the issues intensively, has done what committees are supposed to do. ...