I have to declare an interest in petition PE551 because I helped the petitioners, as constituents of mine, in drafting the petition. However, my involvement ended there. The petition goes along with several other petitions on care of the elderly. We may wish to speak to them together. One of them is PE576. Another is petition PE597, from East Lothian. I also helped the petitioners to draft that petition.I do not know how members feel about the matter, but several of the petitions seem to be related. It might be useful to deal with PE576 on residential care services together with PE591 on people living in care homes.
Official Report · Committee
Petitions
Residential and Nursing Care Places (PE599)
Speakers
Choose an MSP to read only their contributions- Christine Grahame SNP 3
- Mike Rumbles LD 2
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5 contributionsDuring our away day, we decided for the first time that we should undertake post-legislation scrutiny. We decided that the matter of the petitions would be a likely topic for us to consider the impact of the legislation, considering that the previous committee did the original investigation and the legislation went through. We already have the subject on our work programme.
I will identify all the petitions relating to care in the community and the elderly because I missed one out. They are PE551 from Mrs Pat Brown, PE576 from Mr Ross Vettriano, PE591 from Stuart Hay and PE599 from John McKenzie Elder.The suggestion is that we close off the petitions and include them in our post-legislative scrutiny of free personal care and care in the community for the elderly.
It is important to write to the petitioners to say that the petitions have been helpful.
Absolutely—we should also say that the petitions are not dead in the water, but are being absorbed into our inquiry.
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