Committee
Public Petitions Committee 08 March 2011
08 Mar 2011 · S3 · Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
Current Petitions
Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 (Snares) (PE1124)
Are there any other suggestions?
In the same item of business
The Convener
Lab
PE1124, by Louise Robertson, on behalf of the League Against Cruel Sports, Advocates for Animals, the International Otter Survival Fund and Hessilhead Wildli...
John Farquhar Munro
LD
The clerk’s paper suggests that we should include it in our legacy paper in the hope that the successor committee will pick it up and run with it.
The Convener
Lab
Are there any other suggestions?
Nigel Don
SNP
This is an emotive issue and people on different sides are not going to let it go. However, we have just legislated, so perhaps the Parliament has given, for...
Cathie Craigie
Lab
The Parliament had an opportunity to go part way towards meeting the requests in the petition, but it is a Parliament of minorities and the bill was not vote...
The Convener
Lab
We would have to make clear the grounds on which we were doing that.
Cathie Craigie
Lab
It would be on the grounds that my colleague John Farquhar Munro just described.
The Convener
Lab
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is conducting research into the use and humaneness of snares in England and Wales. The results of that...
Bill Butler
Lab
We should include the petition in our legacy paper. We should also write again to the DEFRA secretary of state. The response to that letter will not inform t...
Nanette Milne
Con
I agree with Nigel Don: we have been through the issue. The Parliament has just made a decision on snaring, so I favour closing the petition. If we do so, it...
Robin Harper
Green
Like others here, I have been campaigning for a ban on snares and it is worth noting that in the recent legislation the Parliament agreed that the issue must...
The Convener
Lab
The clerk has just reminded me that we had already decided that we would wait for the conclusion of the DEFRA research.
Fergus Cochrane
In previous meetings, we have flagged up that we are awaiting the results of that research. Committee members have said before that they would reflect on tho...
The Convener
Lab
It is therefore probably incumbent on us to include the petition in our legacy paper. Who knows what the position will be of whatever Government comes in aft...