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Item 7 is our work programme. I advise members that the work programme in question is an updated version of the programme that the committee agreed at its away day. We have received the Executive's consultation paper on fuel poverty. Its approach will be considered at next week's meeting. Do members agree to add that issue to the work programme?
Do members have more general comments on the work programme?
Our report on our inquiry into the voluntary sector was published last week. Have we had any feedback on how it has been received by the voluntary sector? The publication of the report did not get much coverage in the media. I wondered whether the clerks had heard anything from the voluntary sector.
We have received no formal feedback. I have received a few phone calls from some of the organisations that were involved, asking for extra copies.
It is a bit early in the day. The report is quite substantial.
I received the comment that people in the co-operative sector are anxious that that sector be acknowledged. I made the point that, although the report acknowledges that there is a connection between the voluntary sector and the co-operative sector, we were focusing on the voluntary sector.
I close the public session of the committee.
Meeting continued in private until 10:08.