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The Cabinet Secretary for Justice was kind enough to say that he envisaged that the provision would be used in exceptional circumstances. Amendment 1 proposes to add to section 1(8) the words “in exceptional circumstances”.
Aphasia is just one consequence of the lack of ability to treat people in the golden hour when a difference can be made. I recently visited the image-guided therapy research facility led by Professor Iris Grunwald at the University of Dundee.
As Steven Short explained in his oral evidence to you, that is how the Scottish Ambulance Service can direct people to the closest defibrillator in the area. Last Friday, I was in Oban, visiting the Happy Wee Health Club. Outside the gym, there is a defibrillator on the wall.
I welcome the comments that Mr Cole-Hamilton makes. I have visited KidsOR in Dundee; it is an organisation that has deployed medical care on an incredibly sophisticated level in difficult and challenging circumstances.
In my time as an MSP, I have been fortunate to visit many of those businesses and see at first hand the time and money that they have committed to creating sophisticated world-class facilities in Scotland.