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On Friday, I attended an away day for conveners. I asked the conveners of other committees to try to deal with petitions as promptly as possible, especially those that remain outstanding, some of which have been with the committees for a substantial length of time. There was general agreement that, because we are trying not to over-burden the committees with petitions, they will process the petitions that are passed to them more quickly. It was a useful event in assisting the processing of petitions in the Parliament.
I am a member of the Health Committee, and at yesterday's meeting we agreed to devote one of our October meetings to petitions.
We will keep an eye on that. That is the request that I made, and it was met with approval by the other conveners. I hope that we will start to see some progress on those petitions. Given the fact that the Public Petitions Committee thought that they were worthy of further scrutiny, we would like that scrutiny to take place as soon as possible.
Meeting closed at 11:15.
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