| Question being asked by: | Questions |
| Deputy Gollop to the Committee for Heaath & Social Care | 1. As part of business as usual and supporting both family life gender equality goals and population growth will free or affordable fertility services be developed and enhanced according to demand? |
| | 2. The MSG Medical Specialist Group has a fertility team of six consultant fertility services gynaecologists. They work closely with Wessex Fertility Limited providing noncontract services relating to IVF. Does Health & Social Care acknowledge there is both demand and inequitable access to these services? |
| Deputy Gollop to the Committee for Education, Sport & Culture | 1. Would the ESC President and Committee reconsider their previous decision to effectively close Herm School bearing in mind that the education law report was Page 2 of 5 withdrawn at the previous States meeting without an immediate decision leaving £166,000 recurring expenditure available to fund the estimated £60-80,000 required to run Herm School? |
| | 2. Would the President of ESC agree that before announcing Herm School would close, establishing a contract on how the Herm resident children would be ferried each school day for 40 weeks of the year should have been a vital and basic requirement bearing in mind the current provider Travel Trident does not have an early morning sailing as part of their current sailing schedule, would the President inform us if a contract has now been signed , and with whom, and what are the costs involved? |
| | 3. ESC has informed the Herm parents a staff member will travel from Guernsey daily on an early boat to fetch the children from Herm and return them later in the day, what are the staff costs involved including any overtime likely to be needed? |
| | 4. As Previous ESC statements stated Herm School will be maintained during the year trial whilst closing the school, will the President Deputy Dudley Owen inform us who will be carrying out this maintenance, how often and how much the estimated total cost will be? |
| | 5. As part of island life, the weather and sailing conditions can be unpredictable, will the President explain what will happen if the Herm children are in Guernsey and owing to the weather are unable to get back, who will take responsibility for the children aged from 4 years old? |
| | 6. Would the President and ESC members agree that small schools can deliver excellent education and ate vital part of Island and Community life to retain diversity and vitality? |
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