Public Petitions Committee

Meeting date: Thursday, September 5, 2019

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Interests

I welcome everyone to the 14th meeting in 2019 of the Public Petitions Committee. I trust that you all had a quiet summer.

In particular, I welcome our new committee member, Gail Ross, who is replacing Angus MacDonald on the committee. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Angus for all his hard work on the committee and wish him well in his new committee role. Angus was on this committee for seven years and served with great distinction and I was certainly very grateful for all his support when I became convener. I have always appreciated the seriousness with which he has taken his responsibilities on this committee, his persistence on behalf of petitioners and his willingness to do all he can to deliver on what the petitions have called for, as we all aspire to do on this committee. I wish him all the best in his new role and I promise to try not to send too many petitions to his committee because I do not want to see his eyes rolling again.

I invite Gail Ross to declare any relevant interests.

Given the wide-ranging scope of the committee, I refer members to my entry in the register of members’ interests.

Thank you very much. We look forward to working with you.