Hansard

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Annabelle Ewing) SNP

The next item of business is a debate on motion S6M-12331, in the name of Maree Todd, on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill at stage 1. I note that w...

The Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport (Maree Todd) SNP

I thank everyone who has contributed to the consultation on the national care service, our co-design sessions, the annual forums and the many meetings that m...

Pam Duncan-Glancy (Glasgow) (Lab) Lab

As a disabled person and a user of social care, and as someone who gets a lot of representations on the subject in my inbox, as many of us do, I have to say ...

Maree Todd SNP

I agree that people have waited a great deal of time for this change, but let me assure the member and the public that change is coming. Over the past 10 yea...

Kevin Stewart (Aberdeen Central) (SNP) SNP

Will the minister take an intervention on that point?

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

The minister is about to conclude.

Maree Todd SNP

The experts are the people who use community health and social care, as well as unpaid carers and the staff who provide the care. I repeat that the status q...

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

I call Clare Haughey to speak on behalf of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. 15:03

Clare Haughey (Rutherglen) (SNP) SNP

I refer members to my entry in the register of members’ interests, which shows that I hold a bank staff nurse contract with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. I...

Monica Lennon (Central Scotland) (Lab) Lab

I am glad that Clare Haughey mentioned Anne’s law, and I welcome the report’s recommendations. I note that the committee agreed that Anne’s law should be ful...

Clare Haughey SNP

The committee considered the bill in its entirety, including all the different sections, one of which concerns Anne’s law. The consensus agreement with the ...

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

I call Kenneth Gibson to speak on behalf of the Finance and Public Administration Committee. 15:12

Kenneth Gibson (Cunninghame North) (SNP) SNP

Thank you, Presiding Officer. I apologise for missing the first minute of the minister’s opening speech. I also convey my thanks to the Finance and Public A...

Sandesh Gulhane (Glasgow) (Con) Con

I refer members to my entry in the register of members’ interests, as I am a practising NHS general practitioner. I am also a member of the Parliament’s Heal...

Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab) Lab

Social care is in crisis right now. Care packages for some of our most vulnerable people are being cut, almost 10,000 people are stuck waiting to receive ass...

Alex Cole-Hamilton (Edinburgh Western) (LD) LD

Here we are again, debating another iteration of what was, in essence, a line in the SNP’s manifesto in 2021. The election was three years ago, and we are he...

The Deputy Presiding Officer SNP

Mr Cole-Hamilton, you must conclude.

Alex Cole-Hamilton LD

That is what we should be focusing on today and not this ill-fated bureaucratic waste of time. 15:37

Emma Harper (South Scotland) (SNP) SNP

As a member of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee who has been present during the entirety of the committee’s scrutiny of the bill and preparation o...

Gillian Mackay (Central Scotland) (Green) Green

Does Emma Harper agree that, as part of that, we must also look at self-directed support and how that is delivered across the country? When we look at the na...

Emma Harper SNP

I will come on to self-directed support, but it is part of the complex landscape that needs to be reformed, so that we can make changes and help to support t...

Liz Smith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) Con

When a major committee of this Parliament concludes that it is concerned that the Scottish Government has, so far, been unable to articulate and communicate ...

Ivan McKee (Glasgow Provan) (SNP) SNP

I think that everyone agrees on the critical importance of social care. It is a requirement for more and more people in society, and that will continue, due ...

Jackie Baillie Lab

I understand that the member has been asking for the target operating model for some time. Does he think that it is acceptable that it appeared only yesterda...

Ivan McKee SNP

As Jackie Baillie identifies, the committee has been asking for that information for a while, and I am glad that it came out before the debate. To be fair, t...

Carol Mochan (South Scotland) (Lab) Lab

I thank the clerks and members for their participation in the process. The establishment of a national care service gives the Parliament the chance to be bol...

Kevin Stewart (Aberdeen Central) (SNP) SNP

The National Care Service (Scotland) Bill offers us the opportunity to build care services that truly reflect our shared values of dignity, fairness and resp...

Jeremy Balfour (Lothian) (Con) Con

What one difference will the bill make to somebody who is in receipt of social care today or tomorrow? What one difference will it make to their life?

Kevin Stewart SNP

It will make a difference through having a care service that is not only fit for today but right for tomorrow. I know that the minister is working with great...

Gillian Mackay (Central Scotland) (Green) Green

As a member of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, I echo my colleagues’ thanks to the clerks and those who gave evidence to the committee. There i...