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Would the committee consider closing the petition under rule 15.7 of standing orders on the basis that the Children (Scotland) Act 2020 contains measures that are designed to improve the position of families that are affected by domestic abuse, with measures to regulate the provision of child contact centres expected to be introduced in 2023, and the Law Society of Scotland considers that there is already a solid framework in law that regard must be given in circumstances where there has been domestic abuse, with a full suite of powers available to judges to deal with those matters early on in the proceedings?

Yes.

Good morning to the panel members. Why do local authorities provide and deliver such a low proportion of adult care services? What would it take for local authorities or health and social care partnerships to increase the proportion of services that their staff deliver directly? Could that be an effective route to ensuring consistent terms and conditions for fair work?

Those questions were a bit long winded.

Good morning, minister and other panel members. How will the reforms assist in retaining people in NHS dentistry and recruiting new people into it?

How will sectoral bargaining operate across all sectors of provision, including the public and third sectors? The Scottish Government has pledged a rate of £12 per hour. How confident are you that that will be given to a worker no matter who their employer is?

Good morning, everyone. On NHS recovery, why have waiting times not returned to pre-pandemic levels?

Are national treatment centres being considered for any other specific areas, such as cancer treatment, which would be part of the transformation of cancer care?

What impact are national treatment centres having on waiting times for orthopaedic and cataract operations, and on unscheduled care and patient flow in secondary care?

I wonder whether we could write to the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport to highlight the equality and welfare issues that the petitioner has raised in her recent submission and to ask when the promised £10 million will be allocated to the changing places toilet fund and when it will be distributed. Perhaps we could also highlight to the petitioner the existence of the rural tourism infrastructure fund, which is available to be used to build new toilets or to provide upgrades to existing facilities. That might be a route for the Tyndrum group to go down.

I hope that the committee will keep the petition open and dig into it a bit more. In that case, I hope that we would write to Scottish Women’s Aid, the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre and the Law Society of Scotland to seek their views on the action that the petition calls for. I would like the committee to write to the Scottish Law Commission to seek an update on the review of civil remedies for domestic abuse, including clarification on whether the issues that are raised by the petitioner will be included in the scope of the review. I would also like the committee to write to the Scottish Government to seek clarification of when part 1 of the Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Act 2021 will be fully implemented.