Transport and the Environment Committee, 20 Sep 2000

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 20, 2000

Official Report 219KB pdf

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Telecommunications

The next item is a brief update on the telecommunications inquiry. As members will know, some steps were taken on it recently. Members will have copies of a letter from John Gunstone, dated 6 July, and my response to the minister, which was copied to the same people as John Gunstone's letter was copied to. I felt that that was appropriate.

As promised, the minister recently held the telecoms summit, which Richard Walsh attended on the committee's behalf. I think Helen Eadie and Linda Fabiani also attended. We will soon receive a report from Richard and a note from the Executive, both of which we will consider carefully. Do members have any questions or comments on the inquiry?

We had very short notice of the summit. I found it impossible to reorganise my week around it.

At first, we thought the summit was a non-members, officer-only event, but that status changed at very short notice. I should state for the Official Report that the matter was out of our hands.