Public Petitions Committee, 27 Jan 2009

Meeting date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Official Report 340KB pdf

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Interests

The committee clerk has just reminded me—it must be the private world that occupies the minds of clerks—that we have three substitute committee members today and that the Parliament's procedure is that such members must declare their interests.

That is not on the agenda.

Sorry about that. I will just ignore that procedural note from John Wilson.

Jamie McGrigor, Christina McKelvie and Nicol Stephen are substitute members, so we probably need to follow the procedure involved.

I have no interests to declare in relation to this committee. I direct people to my entry in the register of interests on the Parliament's website.

I do not think that I have any interests that are relevant to the committee.

I am in the same situation.

Are you happy?

Yes.

Look at the contentment on the face of our clerk, who can say, "I managed to do my duty."

Convener, I pointed out that the procedure was required.

Good stuff!