Scottish Parliament Health and Community Care Committee Wednesday 26 September 2001 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 09:30]
Good morning. Welcome to this meeting of the Health and Community Care Committee.
We have received several apologies, so there will be a small number of us. We have apologies from Mary Scanlon. I do not know whether all members know that Mary was in quite a serious car accident last week. I understand that she walked out of it but was lucky not to be quite seriously injured. I put on record the fact that we wish her well. I expect that she will appear later today, or tomorrow. She is having to travel down by train, because she no longer has a car.
Dorothy-Grace Elder and John McAllion are also missing this morning. They are visiting the German Parliament with the Public Petitions Committee. That will have an impact when we come to later agenda items.
Did they not know that they were going to be in Berlin when we agreed to put these items on today's agenda last week?
I would have thought so, but they did not make any comments at that point. We will deal with the agenda items as we see fit.