Equal Opportunities Committee, 02 Oct 2007

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Official Report 107KB pdf

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Petition

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Disabled People (Local Transport) (PE695)

Petition PE695 was forwarded to us for information only but it shows that, when people present a petition to the Public Petitions Committee, there is often a positive outcome. The kind of things that the petitioner wants from the petition are all covered in our disability inquiry report, and the committee has decided that consideration of the report's recommendations will form a main plank of its work in the next few months. To that end, we will receive an in-depth analysis of how far those recommendations are being implemented.

I thought that it was good to include the petition on our agenda to show that there is a positive outcome from the Public Petitions Committee's work, in that the petitioner's request is being actioned in this committee. It also emphasises that the work that we are committed to doing on the disability inquiry report's recommendations is appreciated. We will address real issues in that work.

Do I have the committee's permission to write to the petitioner to advise her of what will happen?

Is that to emphasise that the monitoring work continues and has not come to an end simply because the petition has been closed?

No. In fact, it is to outline and confirm the fact that we will take up the points that were made in the petition as part of our consideration of the implementation of the disability inquiry report.