Transport and the Environment Committee, 17 Nov 1999

Meeting date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999

Official Report 282KB pdf

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Scottish Parliament Transport and the Environment Committee Wednesday 17 November 1999 (Morning)

[The Convener opened the public meeting at 09:54]

I begin by welcoming everyone to this meeting of the Transport and the Environment Committee. My name is Andy Kerr, and I am the committee's convener. I welcome members of the press and public, visitors and those from whom we will be taking evidence. Sprinkled around the table are MSPs, members of the official report and officers of the Parliament. They all have their names in front of them, so I do not intend to introduce them individually.

The Signet library is not normally the venue for our committee meetings. It is very prestigious but, I understand, fairly cold. That is a problem that we may have to try to solve during the meeting, but I hope that everyone here will manage to survive. We may break in the middle for some vigorous exercise to heat ourselves up.