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Disabled People (Local Transport) (PE695)

Tuesday 26 June 2007 Public Petitions Committee Petitions 5 contributions · 3 speakers

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Frank McAveety Lab The Convener · Glasgow Shettleston
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The next petition is PE695, which calls on the Scottish Parliament to ensure that local authorities make affordable and accessible local transport available to disabled people who cannot use public transport and to provide ring-fenced funding to local authorities and/or community groups to provide dial-a-ride projects for that purpose. At its meeting in late November 2006, the committee agreed to seek the petitioner's views on a response from the Minister for Transport. The petitioner's response has been circulated to committee members. Do members have views on how to proceed?

John Farquhar Munro LD Ross, Skye and Inverness West
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I understand that new legislation allows people who are disabled in various communities to call a number—to dial a bus, as it were—and be picked up. That relates particularly to people who are seriously disadvantaged—people who need wheelchair access and all the rest of it. I have a couple of those services in my constituency. A new and useful facility has been introduced.

Frank McAveety Lab The Convener · Glasgow Shettleston
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The Equal Opportunities Committee has pursued such issues rigorously and I think that it wants to continue to review and monitor the action that the Executive takes. The key issue is the difficult question of combining parliamentary and ministerial guidance, if not legislation, with local authorities' rights to determine how to allocate the resources that are made available to them. That is always contentious. How do we wish to deal with the petition?

Rhoda Grant Lab Highlands and Islands
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Could we copy the petition to the Equal Opportunities Committee for its information, then close the petition, rather than keep it live? Copying the petition would mean that that committee was aware of the issues that are out there, which I am sure it will continue to scrutinise.

Frank McAveety Lab The Convener · Glasgow Shettleston
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I am comfortable with that. Are other members comfortable with that recommendation?Members indicated agreement.

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