 I thank you and that concludes our urgent questions. I'm now moving on to topical questions. Anna Sarawa To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the response to and the impact of the contamination of water at the cancer ward at the Royal Hospital for children in Glasgow? Shona Robison I welcome this opportunity to update the chamber on the work that is being done by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and the incident management team to address this issue. I am sure that all of us are overriding concern and will be the wellbeing of the children and families in the affected areas. I have spoken today with the board's chair and chief executive and they were clear that no patients are giving any cause for concern as a result of bacterial infections associated with this incident. However, the board with support from health protection Scotland are taking appropriate precautionary measures to ensure that any infection is contained and addressed. Following identification of the bacteria, testing from the water tank supplying both the Queen Elizabeth university hospital and the Royal hospital for children has tested negative. A range of control measures has been put in place, including some taps and shower heads being taken out of use for chemical disinfection and point of use filters are in the process of being installed. Filters are due to be in place by close of play today. Sampling will be undertaken to ensure that the water is deemed safe. I have asked Health Protection Scotland to co-ordinate a thorough investigation as a matter of urgency to review all of those matters and make any recommendations for the NHS going forward. I will ensure that this review is then reported to Parliament. Anas Sarwar. The news of contamination of the water supply at the cancer ward at the children's hospital in Glasgow has caused understandable worry and concern for patients of very sick children. I have spoken directly with parents affected, they are angry, distressed and understandably concerned. Parents who tell me they will learn more about the problem from a newspaper than in any communication from the health board. They also tell me that this issue has now been running for three weeks, but it has only come into the public domain in the last few days. There is clearly an issue with transparency, so can the cabinet secretary advise when she was first made aware of the issue and what communications she has had prior to today with Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board? Can she tell why it took a press inquiry for the health board to go public and why there has not been better communication with patients and patients? I absolutely understand the worry and concern of parents. I have been assured by the health board that they have indeed been keeping parents informed, but I will certainly follow up what Anas Sarwar is saying. If he is saying that that is not the case, they are saying that they have had extensive communication with parents who would understandably anxious. I was first made aware of the issue on 11 March. Scottish Government officials were made aware of the issue prior to that, and Health Protection Scotland has been helping with the board in order to address the issues of concern that have been highlighted. I should say that one of the bacteria that is involved is very rare indeed, so that is quite a complex matter in trying to get to the bottom of the issue. The priority has obviously been the welfare and safety of the children, and that is why the procedures have been taken to ensure that, for example, there are alternative cleaning facilities while the taps and shower heads have been getting the filters fitted. If the water testing is negative, after the filters have all been fitted by the end of today, they are hoping to have the water supply back up and running by tomorrow evening, but that is dependent on having a negative result from the water testing. Scotland's flagship hospital, yet parents have spoken about a lack of hot water for nearly three weeks. That has meant the inability of children cancer patients to even bathe, some being forced to take a taxi to other sites so that they can wash. No, no, no. You had three questions in your first. With respect to the issue that has been raised by concerned parents, that is three weeks without the ability to wash their children. Three weeks? No, Mr Sauer. I said a supplementary. Three weeks for the urgent resolution. Will the cabinet secretary take this opportunity to investigate this further and to apologise directly to the patients and their parents? Cabinet secretary. Well, of course, I would apologise to the parents and the children for the inconvenience that they have experienced, but I am sure that everybody would understand that the most important thing here is safety. If the shower heads and taps are being tested and investigated, then that has to take its course. Those are complex issues and they need to be fully investigated. That bacteria is very rare indeed. I can assure Anasara and the parents and children that absolutely everything has been done to get to the bottom of this. That is why the focus has been now on fitting the filters in those immune-compromised wards. By the end of today, that will have been done. As I said, if the tests are clear and negative, then the water supply will be put back on. As I have already said in my initial answer, Health Protection Scotland will, of course, be looking into all of those matters, and if there are recommendations that can be made in order to improve the situation going forward, then of course that is what will happen. Reports are very worrying, and I welcome the news that none of the children involved are currently giving cause for concern. As the cabinet secretary has already stated that tests have been carried out at the Queen Elizabeth university hospital, we are concerned that the patients who have previously been raised in the building will be asked a question to the cladding of the building. How will the cabinet secretary reassure patients and those who are living in Glasgow that those hospitals are fit for purpose? The issue is completely unrelated to the cladding on the building. Those hospitals are state-of-the-art facilities. They are not alone in sometimes having issues with bacterial infections breaking out, particularly when they are rare. They are very complex to identify the source of that, and that is why everybody has been put in their shoulders to the wheel in order to get to the bottom of that. I would hope that all members will support the board and Health Protection Scotland and the incident management team in their efforts to do so. The focus here is on the safety of the children within the hospital. That should be our main priority, too. Fulton MacGregor. I am losing patience. Can the cabinet secretary confirm that there have been no infections as a result of this incident at the Queen Elizabeth hospital and ask if NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have taken full advice on handling this incident from both Health Protection Scotland and Health Facility Scotland? As we know, there have been no infections of adults in the Queen Elizabeth hospital. The support by Health Protection Scotland and Health Facility Scotland has been there, and the board has been working flat out to get to the bottom of this. They have taken urgent action immediately upon realising that this bacterial infection was present, and they have done everything that they possibly could to get to the bottom of it as quickly as they could. They have had the expert advice and support in order to do that. Those are complex issues, and we should get behind those who are trying to resolve it and support them in their efforts. That concludes the topical questions. I will suspend briefly before we move on to the point of order. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I wish to raise a point of order in relation to the timetabling of the scheduling of the urgent question and the topical question. I think that, as we have just seen in the exchanges of very serious matter raised by Anas Sarwar, I do not think that members were allowed to give proper development to the urgency of the issue because of the restriction and the urgent question that has been raised. Mr Kelly, thank you. As you know, that is a matter for the business managers, and in relation to both very serious topics, Mr Sarwar in fact gave three questions in his first one, which I did not mind at all. Please sit down just now. It is not a point of order. The timetabling of the business for today was set by the business managers. We have to start stage 3. I have given a little extra time. You know yourself the timetabling for stage 3, which must go ahead, so please sit down. That deals with the matter.