Local Government Committee, 15 Sep 1999

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 15, 1999

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Scottish Parliament Local Government Committee Wednesday 15 September 1999 (Morning)

[The Convener opened the meeting at 11:42]

I apologise to the public for the fact that the committee is running late. This morning we had a private meeting with the Accounts Commission for Scotland. As it was interesting, and as there were many questions, we overran our time. We now proceed to the part of the agenda that pertains to the public meeting.

We will examine the recommendations of the McIntosh report, and attempt to put them into categories: the non-contentious ones, if there are any, and the ones about which we think we need more information for debate. We will also discuss how we should go about that. We have 40 minutes, as I think that we should be gathering our bits and pieces by around 12.25. I suspect that we will not manage to discuss the report in its entirety today, but there is a space for it in next week's agenda. We can start with that discussion next week, when we meet in the afternoon.