Public Petitions Committee, 17 Sep 2003
Meeting date: Wednesday, September 17, 2003
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Scottish Parliament Public Petitions Committee Wednesday 17 September 2003 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 10:01]
Good morning and thank you for attending the fourth meeting of the Public Petitions Committee in the second session of Parliament. We have received apologies from Carolyn Leckie, who cannot attend because of a family bereavement. We send her our condolences.
As usual, we have a full agenda, which we will try to get through as quickly as possible. A couple of members are pressed for time, so it would be useful if everyone bore that in mind.
For various reasons, two of the petitions on today's agenda have to be moved or deferred. Krystyna Ost, who submitted petition PE636, had requested to speak to the committee but cannot make it to the meeting this morning. She has sent the committee an e-mail outlining her concerns. I suggest that we move PE636 down the agenda and consider it after PE648, so that we can hear from speakers first. Mr Keith Cowan, who submitted petition PE644, also cannot make it to this morning's meeting. As he wants to speak to the committee, he has asked us to defer consideration of that petition. Does the committee agree to those changes to the agenda?
Members indicated agreement.
We will still hear from speakers this morning: Christine Grahame MSP will speak to PE642 and Mr Andrew Powrie-Smith will speak to petition PE648 on behalf of the British Lung Foundation Scotland. We will take them first, before we come to the rest of the agenda.