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Item 3 is notification of new petitions, on which members have received information. We will note the new petitions and invite petitioners to come forward in due course.
I will have to record my apologies for that meeting. I had hoped to be there. It is important that we do these things and I understand that they have to be done on a Monday. I would have expected to be there, but I was reminded rather later than I should have been that we have a family wedding on the south coast, so there is no possibility that I will be there.
Your future wife would appreciate your turning up.
That is very sexist of you, convener.
Given earlier debates, that is fair enough.
I have to make the same apology, convener. We have a family wedding on the Sunday.
Some of us have really broad shoulders, Robin. I hope that you will be feeling suitably guilty.
That does raise an important point. If three members of the committee have said that they will not be there, I suggest that we confirm whether the other members will be in attendance. I would hate for us to visit Alness with only half the committee there, because I do not think that that gives due respect to people in Alness, or to the committee.
I will be there, as will John Farquhar Munro, Bill Butler, Marlyn Glen and Nanette Milne.
I will be there.
I recognise that it is a big ask for all of us, given how busy our schedules are, but we have to measure that against the benefits of such engagement to us and to the public.
Meeting closed at 16:41.
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