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Those issues have been on the table for quite some time.

I call Gillian Mackay.

I thank the witnesses for their evidence. We will suspend briefly to allow for a changeover of witnesses.

Emma Harper has a supplementary.

Agenda item 3 is our next evidence-taking sessions as part of our scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s proposed stage 2 amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill.

I welcome to the committee Fiona Davies, who is chief executive of NHS Highland, and Karen Reid, who is chief executive of NHS Education for Scotland. Both witnesses are also board chief executive leads of the national health service board chief executives group and are representing that group today. We are also joined online by Julie Murray, who is the chief officer of East Renfrewshire health and social care partnership, who is representing Health and Social Care Scotland.

We will move straight to questions, starting with Sandesh Gulhane.

Thank you. I thought that Tess White wanted to ask a supplementary, but that is not the case. I therefore call Paul Sweeney.

We continue our scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s proposed stage 2 amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill with a second panel of witnesses. I welcome to the committee Rosemary Agnew, the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman, Maree Allison, who is the chief executive of the Scottish Social Services Council, Edith Macintosh, who is the deputy chief executive and executive director for strategy and improvement at the Care Inspectorate, and Robbie Pearson, who is the chief executive of Healthcare Improvement Scotland. We will move straight to questions.

We continue our scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s proposed stage 2 amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill, with a third panel of witnesses. I welcome Isla Davie KC, from the Faculty of Advocates; Jennifer Paton, who is head of policy at the Law Society of Scotland; and Jan Savage, who is executive director at the Scottish Human Rights Commission. I also hope that we will be joined shortly by Suzanne McGuinness, who is executive director of social work at the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. We move straight to questions.

It does not look as if anyone else on the panel has a comment.

I thank the witnesses for their evidence this morning and I am grateful for the information that they have given the committee. It will certainly be very useful in our scrutiny of the proposed stage 2 amendments.

I briefly suspend the meeting to allow for a changeover of witnesses.