Justice and Home Affairs Committee, 19 Sep 2000
Meeting date: Tuesday, September 19, 2000
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Scottish Parliament Justice and Home Affairs Committee Tuesday 19 September 2000 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 09:34]
Good morning. I remind members that we have a great deal of work to get through today; I will try to be quite tight with the timing of items.
We will have a brief adjournment for coffee. We are back in the chamber and we usually have an adjournment only when we have a full morning on stage 2 of a bill. Members can thank Pauline McNeill and Christine Grahame for this morning's largesse. We will probably break for that brief adjournment after item 3. I extend an invitation to the officials, witnesses and so on who are still around at that stage.
I want to raise a small point from last Monday's meeting. We are in contact with the appropriate people to see whether it will be possible to arrange a suitable date for the committee to visit HMP Barlinnie. We thought that it would be preferable to visit the prison at the same time as Clive Fairweather's inspection team visits it. Committee members will be kept apprised of progress.
Item 1 is the time limit motion, which is printed on our agendas, on the debate on SSI 2000/187.
I move,
That the Justice and Home Affairs Committee agrees to debate motion S1M-1157 (motion to recommend that nothing further be done under the Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2000 (SSI 2000/187)) for no more than 30 minutes.
Phil, are you happy enough with the 30-minute time limit?
That is fine, convener.
Are members happy with that?
Members indicated agreement.
Item 2 is simply to ask whether members agree to take in private, at the end of the meeting, item 7 on the committee's consideration of potential candidates for the post of adviser to the committee on the inquiry into legal aid and access to justice. Are we agreed?
Members indicated agreement.