Item 2 is on electronic procedures noticeboards. The paper on the matter is largely self-explanatory. We have a witness from corporate information technology services to give us some comments on the report.
There are several options available for clerks and MSPs to give their views and comments on the Procedures Committee. There is also a separate option for members of the public. The clerks and MSPs would follow a purely internal process based around the intranet. The public process would be accessed through the Scottish Parliament website.
I welcome the direction of the report. Will MSPs have access to the clerks' site and will clerks have access to the MSPs' site? That is what I would prefer.
I would imagine that that would be the case, although it would have to be discussed in more detail with the Procedures Committee clerks.
It is all very encouraging. I am a dead loss at all such things and am feebly trying to learn. It is not appropriate to assume that, if things are put on an electronic noticeboard, everyone will know about them. We still need a belt-and-braces approach—I am one of the incompetent people who need pieces of paper or another system to ensure that they know what is going on. In the meantime, we have to organise lots of training so that we can gradually become competent at all these things. At some future date, it may be that we can do without the bits of paper and do everything through the electronic noticeboards.
That was a bumf-busting contribution.
The way to bust the bumf is to have lots of training for idiots like me.
A lot of training is available. The Parliament's IT staff fall over themselves to help people and the training that they offer is of an excellent quality. Having worked in IT before, I commend the IT department.
Janis, you have picked us up wrongly. We are all in favour of reducing the number of bits of paper for everyone else, but we would like to keep them flowing for us. It is an age-gap thing.
I thank our witness for coming.