Committee
Public Petitions Committee, 28 Jun 2005
28 Jun 2005 · S2 · Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
Current Petitions
Mental Health Services<br />(Deaf and Deaf-blind People) (PE808)
The responses are interesting. Basically, the Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care does not accept the case—that is not an unfair way of paraphrasing what she said. The comment from the John Denmark unit in Manchester was:"This department considers the remit for mental health service for deaf/deafblind people in Scotland needs to be much broader than"what the Executive outlines. On that basis I would like to ask the minister—we have a different Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care as of today, of course—to respond to the points that the John Denmark unit and the Royal National Institute for Deaf People have made.
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The Convener:
Lab
Our first current petition is PE808, by Lilian Lawson, on behalf of the Scottish Council on Deafness, which calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scot...
Mike Watson:
Ind
The responses are interesting. Basically, the Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care does not accept the case—that is not an unfair way of paraphrasin...
John Scott:
Con
I agree with that. It is not good enough that deaf-blind people must travel to the north of England despite all their difficulties. It is difficult enough fo...
The Convener:
Lab
Do we agree to get back to the Executive to ask for a more positive response to the points that have been made on the petition?Members indicated agreement.