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Good morning, and welcome to the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee’s eighth meeting in 2020. I remind everyone to put their mobile phones on silent. John Finnie has submitted his apologies.
The first item on our agenda is a declaration of interests. We have a new committee member, Rachael Hamilton, who is taking over from Jamie Greene. I formally welcome her to the committee and ask her to make a declaration of any interests, so that the committee knows what they are.
Thank you, convener. I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of interests. I have a share in a small hotel in the Scottish Borders.
Thank you.
In the same breath as welcoming Rachael Hamilton, I pay tribute to Jamie Greene, who has left the committee. He has been a member of the committee since the start of the current session; he has worked extremely hard and has sometimes made my life extremely difficult by asking very long questions. He wrote me a very nice letter to say how much he had enjoyed being on the committee—I will not read it out, because in places it is as long as the questions that he asks, but it is fair to say that he worked extremely hard, and I thank him on behalf of the committee for all the effort that he has put in.
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