Committee
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 05 March 2025
05 Mar 2025 · S6 · Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
Continued Petitions
Airborne Infections (Health and Social Care Settings) (PE2071)
I suspect that the session would be post summer recess, so we would expect to have the information by then. However, given that the Parliament will dissolve in a year’s time, it would also allow us to bring all the various health petitions before us. Given the rate that we are able to discuss petitions, that would ensure that we make progress on a number of them.
We will keep PE2071 open and, as has been suggested, write to the cabinet secretary, with a view to hearing evidence from him later in the year. Are colleagues content with the proposals?
Members indicated agreement.
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The Convener
Con
That brings us to PE2071. I apologise, as I have quite a long narrative to deliver at this point—I will do my best. The petition, which was lodged by Dr Sall...
Marie McNair (Clydebank and Milngavie) (SNP)
SNP
Given the concerns that the ALLIANCE has raised, we should write to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care to highlight its assessment that “many ...
Foysol Choudhury
Lab
I am sure that, like me, colleagues are getting emails from people who have long Covid. Can we invite the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care to com...
The Convener
Con
I welcome that sensible suggestion, Mr Choudhury.
Marie McNair
SNP
That is a good suggestion, but we could wait until we receive a response from the cabinet secretary, then maybe invite him to attend.
Foysol Choudhury
Lab
I was thinking about the time that we have left.
The Convener
Con
Yes, we are running out of time in this parliamentary session, and we have quite a number of health-related petitions before us. Perhaps we could identify a ...
Fergus Ewing
SNP
The idea of having a conjoined session that deals with various important outstanding health petitions and hearing from the cabinet secretary on all of them i...
The Convener
Con
Yes.
Fergus Ewing
SNP
In other words, we would have both. First, we have the written response, which we can study, and that will better inform our examination and evidence-taking ...
The Convener
Con
I suspect that the session would be post summer recess, so we would expect to have the information by then. However, given that the Parliament will dissolve ...