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We now come to the more important part of this meeting, which is the selection of convener. The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish Conservative Party are eligible for nomination as convener of the committee. As Gavin Brown is the only member of that party on the committee, I ask that the committee agree that he be chosen as convener.
It gives me enormous pleasure to demit the chair to Gavin Brown.
I thank Chic Brodie for convening the meeting thus far and thank members for allowing me to be the committee convener. It is an honour and a pleasure. Having sat on the committee for the past four years, I believe that it is extremely important and has done a lot of good work on the economy, energy and tourism. I recognise on the record the work of the committee’s previous convener, Iain Smith, who was the MSP for North-East Fife but was not returned. In his three years as convener, he was very good and did very valuable work.
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