Justice and Home Affairs Committee, 29 Mar 2000
Meeting date: Wednesday, March 29, 2000
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Scottish Parliament Justice and Home Affairs Committee Wednesday 29 March 2000 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 09:30]
Good morning, everyone. Let us get this meeting started. I have apologies from Phil Gallie and—
There is Phil Gallie.
Is Phil here? Sorry. I am just reading this.
Perhaps he is apologising for turning up. [Laughter.]
Maybe we will just minute apologies from Phil Gallie whether he is here or not. That leaves apologies from Maureen Macmillan, who is in Brussels with the European Committee. There may need to be a committee summit meeting on that. Brian Monteith may be coming, but he is not here yet. If he appears, we will welcome him.
We have a number of items on the agenda this morning. I remind members that declarations of interest pertain throughout the committee's proceedings. I know that people made what they considered to be the necessary general declarations at the first committee meeting, but now that we have non-legislative issues on our agenda for a change, I remind members that specific declarations of interest are also required.
Item 1 on the agenda is the draft report on the petition by the Carbeth Hutters Association. We will look at that report, but I want the committee's agreement that when we do so, we take that part of the meeting in private. We are not doing that today; we are just deciding to take the item in private. Are we agreed?
Members indicated agreement.