Local Government and Transport Committee, 27 Mar 2007

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 27, 2007

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Scottish Parliament Local Government and Transport Committee Tuesday 27 March 2007

[The Convener opened the meeting at 14:02]

Today's meeting of the Local Government and Transport Committee will be our last of the current parliamentary session. I place on record my thanks to all committee members for their contributions over the past four years—not only those members who are present at the moment, but those who have served on the committee over the course of the whole four years. This has been a very effective committee. It has carried out a lot of effective business and has scrutinised the work of the relevant ministers in a thorough manner. Thank you all for your help on that. I also place on record my thanks to Martin Verity and his team of clerks for their professional support throughout the four years.

We now come to the business of today's meeting. The agenda as originally published had the item on the Scottish statutory instrument that the Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform is coming along to address at the top, but he is not available until about 3.30, therefore I have rejigged the agenda so that the item will come at the end. If we get through all the other items before then, it will be necessary for me to suspend the meeting until 3.30. Apologies for that, but it is unavoidable.