Committee
Health and Sport Committee 08 March 2016
08 Mar 2016 · S4 · Health and Sport Committee
Item of business
Petitions
Speech and Language Therapy (PE1384)
I was going to express a similar view. Kim Hartley Kean accepts that the petition should be closed but expresses a level of dissatisfaction about the lack of progress on some of the issues during this parliamentary session. I have been on this committee for only six months, so I do not know the detail of what it has been doing, but perhaps AHP services in general, and speech and language therapy in particular, need a bit more attention in the next session. We could mention that in our legacy paper.
In the same item of business
The Convener
Lab
Item 5 is consideration of PE1384, from Kim Hartley, on behalf of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. In paper HS/S4/16/13/10, members can ...
Nanette Milne
Con
I agree that we should close the petition. Kim Hartley Kean—as she now is—has put a huge amount of effort into the petition and into speech and language ther...
The Convener
Lab
I hear that.
Malcolm Chisholm
Lab
I was going to express a similar view. Kim Hartley Kean accepts that the petition should be closed but expresses a level of dissatisfaction about the lack of...
The Convener
Lab
We can draw our successor committee’s attention to the issue in the legacy paper. We are not in a position to set the new committee’s work programme, but the...
Dennis Robertson
SNP
I declare an interest: I am convener of the cross-party group on heart disease and stroke, and Kim Hartley Kean is a representative on that cross-party group...
The Convener
Lab
It is very good to put the issue in that context. I will not prevent other members from commenting if they want to do so, but there seems to be a consensus ...
The Convener
Lab
Thank you. That ends the public part of the meeting and we move into private to consider our legacy paper. 11:51 Meeting continued in private until 12:06.