Health and Community Care Committee, 10 Jan 2001

Meeting date: Wednesday, January 10, 2001

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Scottish Parliament Health and Community Care Committee Wednesday 10 January 2001 (Morning)

[The Convener opened the meeting at 09:31]

Good morning. I welcome everybody to the first Health and Community Care Committee meeting of 2001 and wish you all a good new year.

In particular, I welcome the new members of the committee. After a few weeks of fluctuating membership, the committee is now complete. It is good to know that this team will progress the committee's business. I hope that the new members will find that this is a fun, broad-ranging committee. We cover a lot of different issues and constantly look for comments from members on everything under the sun. John McAllion has some idea of the breadth of the committee's work because he is always forwarding us petitions on all sorts of issues. I hope that the new members will find the committee interesting. It is certainly important, not only because of the subject matter, but because we preside over the scrutiny of the health budget, which is one third of the total Scottish Executive budget.