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)
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.
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.