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Item 3 is notification of new petitions. Does the committee agree to note the new petitions?
Our next meeting is an external meeting that will be held in Berwickshire high school in Duns. I know that sometimes we make commitments and then, as the date approaches, realise that we are overwhelmed with other work and I know that members who have other committees on the same day will have difficulties in attending, but no committee of the Parliament has visited that part of the country, so it is important. I know that we all have calls on our time, but could members look at their diary commitments and see whether there are any opportunities for flexibility?
When is that?
It is a fortnight today, at 12.30. Transport will be arranged to leave the Parliament at 10.30. The meeting will be a combination of committee business and discussion with members of the public about the role of the Public Petitions Committee. I am just drawing attention to that. I am conscious that members are under a lot of pressure.
Is it planned that members who are able to go will be transported back in time for decision time? I am sure that we will be transported back, but I just wondered about the timescale.
It is a Tuesday. The problem is the clashes between committees. My plea is that the committee should be reasonably represented, although I know the pressures that we are all under; members have had to come from other committees today. If there is any way that members could be flexible, it would be much appreciated.
I hear what you are saying. Given what we are currently dealing with, I think that I am speaking for Bill Butler and myself when I say that I do not think that we have that flexibility. I do not think that we will be able to be with you.
That means that it is incumbent on the rest of us to be utterly and totally disciplined. I know that Nigel Don and Bill Butler are dealing with important evidence.
I also have previous commitments on that day.
I just want to confirm that we are being brought back. We are not being taken down there and left there.
It could be better fun than a Tuesday night in Edinburgh.
Meeting closed at 15:44.
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