Current Petitions

PE1179, from Helen Moran, on behalf of the Brain Injury Awareness Campaign, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce a separate and distinct health and community care client category of acquired brain injury, to ensure that people with acquired brain injury and their carers get the services and support they need and that agencies can plan and deliver services more effectively.The matter has been discussed and we have had the papers to look at in detail for the past fortnight. Are there any views on how we wish to deal with the petition?

It is disappointing that, despite repeated requests from the clerks, the committee has received no formal note of the meeting that has taken place between the petitioner and the Scottish Government.

That has now been tabled.

It has been tabled today.

It is a bit like “Blue Peter”—we have one that we prepared earlier.

You have got me there, convener. I will stop there and have a look for the document in our papers.

We will have a short break at 3 o’clock. We can perhaps revisit the petition after that and continue the discussion, so that members have a chance to digest the late submission.Sorry about that. I know that one or two members have been at other committees and that the two members who have expressed concerns are constantly up against it because of the scheduling of committees in the Parliament. We will revisit the petition shortly after the suspension.