Committee
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 18 June 2025
18 Jun 2025 · S6 · Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
New Petitions
Support for Ex-council Properties (PE2150)
The problem is that the standing orders of the Parliament do not allow us to have two petitions open in relation to the same thing at the same time, so I am afraid that we cannot do that.
It is important that we acknowledge that some of the issues here remain active in a live petition. In closing it, we accept that there is an issue here, but the Scottish Government—and, at this stage in the life of the Parliament, there is not much more that we can give effect to in that regard—has said that it is not prepared to pursue the suggested solution that is before us. I therefore do not think that we have any other course of action than the one that Mr Torrance has suggested to us.
Are we agreed?
Members indicated agreement.
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