Equal Opportunities Committee
Meeting date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Official Report
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Decision on Taking Business in Private
The Convener (Margaret Mitchell)
Good morning and welcome to the Equal Opportunities Committee’s eighth meeting in 2010. I remind all those present, including members, that mobile phones and BlackBerrys should be switched off completely, as they interfere with the sound system even when they are switched to silent. We have apologies from Willie Coffey and we are pleased to welcome his substitute, Shirley-Anne Somerville.
Before we start our formal business, I say with a degree of sadness from the committee’s point of view that, after six years clerking the committee, Sam Currie is moving to the non-Executive bills unit. We thank Sam for her sterling work during those six years. She will come back to help us with our external meeting in June, so it is not quite goodbye yet—just au revoir for the moment.
The first agenda item is a decision on whether to take item 5 in private and whether our consideration of the main themes arising from the evidence heard in, and our draft report on, our inquiry into migration and trafficking should be taken in private at future meetings. Do members agree to take those items in private?
Members indicated agreement.