Chamber and committees

We will move to questions from Fulton MacGregor.

I am mindful of the time, but Maggie Chapman would like to come back in for another question.

Thank you very much. We now go to Maggie Chapman.

Thanks, Regina. Karen Adam will begin the questions.

Welcome to the 20th meeting in 2022 of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee. We have received no apologies for this afternoon’s meeting.

Our first agenda item is to continue taking evidence on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. It gives me great pleasure to welcome Senator Regina Doherty, Leader of the Irish Senate. I refer members to paper 1, and invite Senator Doherty to make a short opening statement.

Peter Dunne started to address the issue of waiting periods. Fulton MacGregor wants to probe that a bit more.

Thanks to all three of our witnesses. It has been a long meeting today—I know that everyone has been watching all the evidence sessions. Thank you so much for helping us with our stage 1 inquiry. That concludes the public part of our meeting. We will now move into private session for our final agenda item.

Thanks very much, Ian. We now move to questions, starting with Maggie Chapman.

Thanks. We will go to Pam Duncan-Glancy.

Rachael, it is probably useful if I say that, following Cathy Asante’s comments about her interpretation of what the children’s commissioner said, we have checked and she is correct: he was talking about support for young people.