Public Petitions Committee, 19 Jun 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, June 19, 2001

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Scottish Parliament Public Petitions Committee Tuesday 19 June 2001 (Morning)

[The Convener opened the meeting at 10:05]

I welcome everyone to the 9th meeting in 2001 of the Public Petitions Committee. Apologies have been received from Winnie Ewing. I welcome Brian Adam and the new member for Banff and Buchan, Stewart Stevenson. They are not members of the committee, but they are welcome here. We also expect Richard Lochhead and Elaine Thomson to join us at some point during the morning.

I remind members that, because of the general election, this is the first meeting that we have had in four weeks. As a result, we have a heavy work load, with 16 new petitions to be considered and seven groups of petitioners wanting to address the committee. We have also received 11 responses to current petitions, which must be given careful consideration. I therefore appeal to members to be as brief as possible in their questioning and interventions during the meeting, otherwise we will be here for a long time.