Health and Community Care Committee, 24 Jan 2001
Meeting date: Wednesday, January 24, 2001
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Scottish Parliament Health and Community Care Committee Wednesday 24 January 2001 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 09:37]
Good morning. I welcome everybody to this morning's committee meeting.
Before we get on with the agenda, Councillor Rita Miller is present this morning. Councillor Miller, I believe that we were taking evidence on community care the previous time you visited the committee.
Councillor Rita Miller (Convention of Scottish Local Authorities):
That is right.
I will give committee members an update on the matter. We should have received the Executive's response to our community care report yesterday, but it has not yet arrived. As a result, we have been putting pressure on the Executive this week to ensure that we get our hands on its response. A statement will be made this afternoon; we seek clarification because we have been told different things about whether the statement is in response to the review or—at least partly—to our report.
I have taken the matter up with the parties' business managers and I hope that we will receive the Executive's response today. It is rather unfortunate that we do not yet have that response, because it means that we will be expected to respond to the statement without having read even the chief nursing officer's in-depth report. It would have been useful to have the Executive's response in advance and, as I say, I am exerting pressure to ensure that we receive it today.