Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Legacy Paper

The final item on the agenda is a draft legacy paper. I remind members that, although the room has largely been cleared of witnesses, we are still in public session to discuss the paper.

Do members have any general comments to make before we consider the paper page by page? There is one suggestion that I want to make, but I am not clear where it could fit into the paper—it could possibly go under the “Methods of Working” heading. I want to refer to climate change as well as to sustainable development and energy issues such as peak oil, all of which would fit with different committees’ remits in the current committee structure. Given the lack of a sustainable development commission from now on, I suggest that we refer to cross-cutting issues that impact on a wide range of subject committees’ remits, and ask whether members in the new session, even before the new committee structure is established, could consider how those issues might fit together so that more coherent scrutiny across them is provided, and how the committees can work together. I am not sure whether that fits easily into an existing paragraph, or whether there needs to be a new one. Is it all right if we add something along those lines?

Members indicated agreement.

As members have no suggestions to make on any of its seven pages, do we agree the draft legacy paper, subject to its being changed along the lines that I have suggested?

Members indicated agreement.

15:15  

Thank you very much. That brings us to the end of our final meeting of the session. I thank all of you for being a generally constructive and always pleasant committee to work with. I am very grateful to all of you for your engagement over the past four years, and I am sure that you would all want to join me in thanking all our colleagues in the clerking team, the Scottish Parliament information centre, security, broadcasting and the official report, who have all facilitated our meetings.

In particular, members might want to add a word of thanks to Robert Arnott from the official report, who is not expected to be with us in the next session, so this will be his last committee meeting. He has been with the Parliament since 1999, and I think that the committee should join me in offering him our thanks and best wishes for the future.

Thank you.

If this is the only chance that you will have to get some words in the Official Report, take it or leave it.

I am sure that that never happens, convener.

Thank you anyway.

I wish all of you—or most of you, at least—mostly well for the next few weeks. Thank you all very much.

I think that the phrase is, “Good luck to everyone.”

Good luck to everyone, in whatever we may do.

Meeting closed at 15:17.