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Again, we cannot become involved in the individual case to which the petitioner refers. The new Scottish public services ombudsman, Alice Brown, has just taken up her post.
I think that it would be more efficacious—party politics aside—if a new Administration, of whatever composition, and a new minister had copies of a good report on their desks.
As a result of the process, I am pleased to recommend, on behalf of the panel, that the Parliament nominate Professor Alice Brown to be appointed by Her Majesty as the new Scottish public services ombudsman.
It is a party that does not want to say that the new hospitals at Hairmyres, Wishaw, east Ayrshire, and the new royal infirmary in Edinburgh, are important.