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Disabled People (Local Transport) (PE695)

Wednesday 26 October 2005 Public Petitions Committee Petitions 5 contributions · 2 speakers

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Michael McMahon Lab The Convener · Hamilton North and Bellshill
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Our final current petition is PE695, from Jan Goodall, on behalf of Dundee accessible transport action group. The petition calls on the Scottish Parliament to ensure that local authorities have affordable and accessible local transport available for disabled people who cannot use public transport, and to provide ring-fenced funding to allow local authority and/or community groups to provide dial-a-ride projects for that purpose.At its meeting on 25 May 2005, the committee agreed to write to the petitioner and to pass the petition to the Equal Opportunities Committee for information only. Responses have been received from the petitioner and from the Community Transport Association. What should the committee do?

Helen Eadie Lab Dunfermline East
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It is good to see such an important issue being progressed. Can we write to the Minister for Transport and Telecommunications to ask for his views on the responses and to ask him when the research on the transport needs of disabled people in Scotland is due to be published?

Michael McMahon Lab The Convener · Hamilton North and Bellshill
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Do members agree with that proposal?Members indicated agreement.

Michael McMahon Lab The Convener · Hamilton North and Bellshill
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That ends the meeting. I thank members for attending.

Meeting closed at 11:48.

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