Transport and the Environment Committee, 05 Sep 2001

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 5, 2001

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Interests

I extend a warm welcome to John Scott, who joins us today as a new member. I am pleased to see him here. It is also appropriate to recognise the work that Murray Tosh did on the committee. He was a very interesting and able member of the committee, but I am sure that John Scott will ably fill his boots.

After that warm welcome, I invite John Scott to declare any interests that he thinks may be appropriate to the work of the committee.

Thank you for the welcome and for your kind words about Murray Tosh.

I have interests to declare in that I am a farmer and on that farm it is certainly the Government's intention to put sites of scientific interest, which I am not too happy about.

I thought that you were going to burst into song when you said, "on that farm". That is another matter entirely.