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Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Social Justice and Social Security Committee (Joint Meeting)
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Gillian Martin
Thank you. I will bring Karen Reynolds back in and then I will go to my colleagues.
Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Social Justice and Social Security Committee (Joint Meeting)
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Gillian Martin
To come back to what Justina Murray has just said, though, you used the word “gatekeepers”—that sounds like quite a negative term, suggesting that people are closing the gate too firmly when the family and the person involved may see residential rehab as an option.
Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Social Justice and Social Security Committee (Joint Meeting)
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Gillian Martin
The health case has been made for that, but it is bound up in justice issues and constitutional wrangling about where the powers lie to deliver it.
Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Social Justice and Social Security Committee (Joint Meeting)
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Gillian Martin
Thank you—that was very helpful. We move to Karen Reynolds.
Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Social Justice and Social Security Committee (Joint Meeting)
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Gillian Martin
Thank you. I have let you have a massive amount of time setting out your stall, but I can see my colleagues looking at me and thinking, “When can I get a go?”, so I will hand over to Audrey Nicoll.
Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Social Justice and Social Security Committee (Joint Meeting)
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Gillian Martin
Thank you. Russell Findlay has the next question.
Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Social Justice and Social Security Committee (Joint Meeting)
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Gillian Martin
I thank all of you for your attendance this morning and for everything that you have said. It has been extremely helpful and powerful.
I suspend the meeting to allow the witnesses to leave.
11:16 Meeting suspended.Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Social Justice and Social Security Committee (Joint Meeting)
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Gillian Martin
Paul O’Kane has questions on data.
Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Social Justice and Social Security Committee (Joint Meeting)
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Gillian Martin
I thank the minister and her officials for their time. That concludes the public part of today’s meeting.
12:29 Meeting continued in private until 12:32.Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Social Justice and Social Security Committee (Joint Meeting)
Meeting date: 22 March 2023
Gillian Martin
Is that question for Karen Reynolds?