Committee
Public Petitions Committee 01 March 2016
01 Mar 2016 · S4 · Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
Continued Petitions
School Bus Safety (PE1223)
Agenda item 2 is consideration of 11 continued petitions, beginning with PE1223, by Ron Beaty, on school bus safety. Mr Beaty is usually in the public gallery. I cannot see him here today, but he has had some ill health; if that is why he is not here, the committee sends him our best wishes. He has pursued the issue for some considerable time and I hope that he returns to good health in the near future. Stewart Stevenson, Mr Beaty’s MSP, is with us and has been as dedicated as the petitioner in pursuing the issue. Would you like to make some comments before we deliberate on the petition, Stewart?
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The Convener
Lab
Agenda item 2 is consideration of 11 continued petitions, beginning with PE1223, by Ron Beaty, on school bus safety. Mr Beaty is usually in the public galler...
Stewart Stevenson (Banffshire and Buchan Coast) (SNP)
SNP
Thank you, convener. I am sure that Ron Beaty will appreciate the committee’s good wishes. He is making a good recovery, but is not quite well enough to make...
The Convener
Lab
That request is not unreasonable. There is a bit of mileage—I do not mean that as a pun—to be had from this and interest that we can continue to pursue. I su...
John Wilson (Central Scotland) (Ind)
Ind
I suggest that we also write to Transport Scotland, based on Mr Stevenson’s comments, to find out when it expects to carry out the evaluation of the Glasgow ...
The Convener
Lab
There is general agreement that we take the petition forward by adding it to our legacy paper. Do members agree to pursue the correspondence that John Wilson...