Mental Health (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at on 24 June 2015.

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Photo of Jackie Baillie Jackie Baillie Labour

Presiding Officer, it is usually for the member to accept an intervention, but I bow to your judgment.

People have started the process before. Minister after minister has said, “We will do this.” The minister, in reflecting one of his concerns to me, said there was not time for civil servants to do it now because they would need to get on with the enactment of the bill. That has not changed; therefore, while the minister may have started the process, it is the finish of that process that people care about.

As I said before, I intend to press amendment 1 because it is the right thing to do.