Committee
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 05 March 2025
05 Mar 2025 · S6 · Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
New Petitions
Scottish Rivers (Legal Right to Personhood) (PE2131)
In 2019, the High Court of Bangladesh conferred legal personhood on the Turag River and, by extension, all rivers in Bangladesh. In the light of that, and in the light of what Mr Sweeney has said, I think that we should keep the petition open. It would be good to write to the Glasgow city region to seek its views on the actions that are called for in the petition and to get information on the work that is being done to deliver the Clyde mission.
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The Convener
Con
We move to petition PE2131, which was lodged by Professor Louise Welsh and Jude Barber on behalf of the Empire Cafe. I wonder whether our remaining guests in...
Paul Sweeney (Glasgow) (Lab)
Lab
Thank you, convener. It is a pleasure to join the committee again today. I felt that I had to be close to the Clyde to make this statement, which is why I di...
The Convener
Con
Thank you very much, Mr Sweeney. That was a helpful exposition of some of the issues underpinning the petition. Having heard from Mr Sweeney, do colleagues ...
Foysol Choudhury
Lab
In 2019, the High Court of Bangladesh conferred legal personhood on the Turag River and, by extension, all rivers in Bangladesh. In the light of that, and in...
Fergus Ewing
SNP
I am very grateful to Mr Sweeney for his most informative introduction and for giving us the interesting background to the history of the Clyde, which has a ...
The Convener
Con
I think that those remarks were very nicely rounded and put. I am not sure that the petition’s specific aim is something that we can deliver, but we could pu...
The Convener
Con
I thank Mr Sweeney for assisting us in coming to that determination. We will keep the petition open—the petitioners in the gallery can be assured of that—and...