Health and Community Care Committee,
Meeting date: Wednesday, May 3, 2000
Official Report
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Organisations (Contacts)
The next item on the agenda is consideration of contacts from outside organisations. Members will know that we have received a number of contacts from other organisations, many of which want to provide information or give presentations to the committee.
The committee's work load is such that we cannot make ourselves available in that way, but as individual members we can still meet outside organisations in a less structured way. As a result, perhaps we should write to outside organisations and make them aware of the time constraints on the committee. That said, members who are experts on community care are considering contacts from outside organisations to find out whether they fit in to our work on community care.
As I outlined last week to colleagues, the petition on the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine from Mr William Welsh is coming to us via the Public Petitions Committee. There was also a request for a committee member to take part in the Scottish Human Services Trust conference in Edinburgh. However, the conference falls on one of the days when the Parliament is meeting in Glasgow and I for one do not want to miss out on the opportunity of being in Glasgow. I suspect that committee members also feel that it would not be easy for us to take time out from Parliament meetings to attend the conference. I hope that that is acceptable to committee members. However, that said, I want to put on record that we welcome the number of outside organisations that have contacted us and the incalculable help that we have received from them. Are members agreed?
Members indicated agreement.