Public Petitions Committee, 02 Dec 2008
Meeting date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Official Report
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New Petitions (Notification)
We come now to item 4 on our agenda. Members have in front of them a paper indicating the new petitions that have been lodged since our previous meeting. They will be timetabled to come before us at the earliest opportunity.
That brings us to the end of our meeting. I want to put on record our appreciation of Berwickshire high school here in Duns. I thank the rector, the teachers and the pupils for allowing us to use their main school assembly hall. Some poor students have probably been exiled somewhere, but perhaps students are not as radical as they used to be—in the past there would normally have been a sit-in protest at rights being taken away like that.
I would also like to thank other staff of the school. Half my relations were involved in janitorial work in Glasgow, so I appreciate the work that has been done to prepare for the visit of the parliamentary committee today, allowing access for all the equipment to make things run smoothly.
I thank everybody for participating. We have had some good contributions to our inquiry into the petitions process, and interesting comments on the petitions that we have considered this afternoon.
The next meeting of the Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee will be on home ground, at 2 o'clock on Tuesday 16 December.
Home ground? Is that in Glasgow?
In Edinburgh. As a Glaswegian, I should have picked my words more carefully.
I wish everyone a safe journey home. Thank you.
Meeting closed at 15:15.