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Official Report: search what was said in Parliament

The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 17 July 2025
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Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

University of Dundee

Meeting date: 25 June 2025

Joe FitzPatrick

When you say that you did not realise until September, that is the thing that people who are watching this meeting—students, lecturers and staff who still do not feel completely secure about their jobs—will find incredible. They will find it incredible that folk in your position would not have realised how bad things were until that late. That is incredible.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

University of Dundee

Meeting date: 25 June 2025

Joe FitzPatrick

Okay, thank you.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

University of Dundee

Meeting date: 25 June 2025

Joe FitzPatrick

I have a very quick question. Mr Fotheringham, you have said to me and to the convener that people knew but did not speak up. Will you tell the committee who knew but did not speak up? We need to make sure that we are asking questions of the right people.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

University of Dundee

Meeting date: 25 June 2025

Joe FitzPatrick

Was it just not shared?

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

University of Dundee

Meeting date: 25 June 2025

Joe FitzPatrick

Whose prediction was that? Where did that prediction of 25 per cent come from, given the different nature of Dundee university’s international students and the high-risk countries that were being recruited from? Who made that assessment?

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

University of Dundee

Meeting date: 25 June 2025

Joe FitzPatrick

The prediction was of a massively different scale from what actually happened, then.

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Draft]

University of Dundee

Meeting date: 25 June 2025

Joe FitzPatrick

We are speaking to the former principal tomorrow, so we will ask him about that. In your view, was that the reason for her departure being sought, or was it that he just did not like the challenge?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Children’s and Young People’s Participation in Sport and Physical Activity

Meeting date: 24 June 2025

Joe FitzPatrick

Is the framework helping to bridge the gap between ensuring that those folk who, as we heard earlier, are physically inactive get a bit of activity and moving folk into organised sport? I guess that that is what we have to do if we are going to get elite athletes. After all, we do not know who the elite athletes are going to be—they could be anywhere. We know for sure that socioeconomic factors influence who gets to participate, but they do not determine who has the potential.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Children’s and Young People’s Participation in Sport and Physical Activity

Meeting date: 24 June 2025

Joe FitzPatrick

Thanks.

I will come to Jillian Gibson last, for a really good reason. Ailsa, as you were involved in developing the framework, it would be good to hear your perspective.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Children’s and Young People’s Participation in Sport and Physical Activity

Meeting date: 24 June 2025

Joe FitzPatrick

That is great. Thank you.

Jillian Gibson, I wanted to come to you last because, although I think that the framework is a good document, local government will be key to making it happen in the real world. Therefore, it was good to hear about the special interest group. I know that there are some folk in local government who are—I will choose my words carefully—almost as passionate as Brian Whittle is in this area.