Finance Committee, 20 Feb 2007
Meeting date: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Official Report
141KB pdf
Interests
I welcome the press and public to the meeting. As usual, I ask everybody to turn off their pagers, mobile phones and BlackBerrys.
No apologies have been received, but there has been a change in the committee's membership: Dr Elaine Murray has resigned from the committee and has been replaced by Malcolm Chisholm. I thank her for all her work; she has been a member of the committee since the start of the session. I think all members would agree that she was one of the most diligent and assiduous members in pursuing the work of the committee, and that she enhanced the committee's reputation through many of our deliberations. I thank Elaine Murray on behalf of us all.
I also welcome Malcolm Chisholm. It has been a long time since Malcolm has been an ordinary committee member, so we look forward to the insights that he can bring to bear, based on his extensive ministerial experience.
The first item on the agenda, as per usual when there is a new committee member, is to invite that member to declare any relevant interests.
I have no relevant interests.