Committee
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 19 February 2025
19 Feb 2025 · S6 · Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
New Petitions
A96 Dualling (Inverness-Nairn Timeline) (PE2132)
Thank you, Mr Ewing. No doubt the cabinet secretary will take note of the Official Report when we flag up issues that might be raised with her when she gives evidence. I note that Nairn is a one-horse town with rabbit runs and that the traffic moves at the pace of a tortoise, but we will try to move beyond all those metaphors and analogies.
Are we content to include the petition as part of the forthcoming evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Transport on the various road transport petitions that we have before us?
Members indicated agreement.
In the same item of business
The Convener
Con
That brings us to the last of the new petitions. PE2132 was lodged by the Inverness Courier and calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Governm...
Fergus Ewing
SNP
I am pleased that the Inverness Courier, in its wisdom, has chosen to lodge the petition. I thank it for doing so and for championing the issue, which is of ...
The Convener
Con
Is there a proposal in all this?
Fergus Ewing
SNP
There is a proposal, which is that fair notice be given to the cabinet secretary.
The Convener
Con
She is coming to the committee to address a tapestry of transport issues.
Fergus Ewing
SNP
Yes—a rich tapestry of transport issues. On a practical level, Nairn is really a one-horse town, in the sense that there is one road in and one road out. Th...
The Convener
Con
Thank you, Mr Ewing. No doubt the cabinet secretary will take note of the Official Report when we flag up issues that might be raised with her when she gives...
The Convener
Con
That concludes the public part of our meeting. We next meet on 5 March. 11:11 Meeting continued in private until 11:37.