Justice 2 Committee, 26 Jun 2001

Meeting date: Tuesday, June 26, 2001

Official Report 214KB pdf

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Consultative Steering Group Principles

Item 4 is the Procedures Committee inquiry into the application of the consultative steering group principles in the Scottish Parliament. Members will recall that at our previous meeting we were asked to produce, at very short notice, some ideas for a report, which we did. I hope that members have had the chance to read the report, J2/01/19/2, which is included in the committee papers. I thank the clerks for making sense of what we said at our previous meeting.

We will go through the report page by page. Members may draw the committee's attention to any points that they are unhappy with.

The only comment I have on page 1 is about paragraph 4 on sharing the power, which mentions the Carbeth hutters. We should mention that we are still waiting for action on that. Although it is a success story, the hutters have now waited for action for quite a long time.

I see that members are happy with page 2. Are there any points on page 3?

I especially like paragraph 11. I have commented on the issue before.

Yes; Lyndsay McIntosh has commented before on the strain that travelling to Edinburgh to give evidence to the committee places on the resources of small organisations. That issue is addressed in paragraph 11.

Paragraph 15 mentions the Dunard Library. Where is that?

It is at the Hub; it is where there are three wee steps.

Is that what that part of the Hub is called?

Yes.

Sorry. I did not fully understand that.

You have been there.

I know that I have been there, but I did not know what it was called.

I thank the clerks again for the excellent report.