European Committee, 30 Jan 2001
Meeting date: Tuesday, January 30, 2001
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Scottish Parliament European Committee Tuesday 30 January 2001 (Afternoon)
[The Oldest Committee Member opened the meeting at 14:08]
Good afternoon, everyone. I welcome you to the second meeting in 2001 of the European Committee.
This is my most accelerated promotion in a long time. I joined the committee at its previous meeting and I am its acting convener for about a minute and a half while we conduct one or two necessary formalities.
As members will see, the convener, Hugh Henry, is unable to be present today—unfortunately, he is attending a funeral. As we do not have a deputy convener at this stage, the privilege of chairing the meeting for the next few minutes falls to me as oldest, or most chronologically challenged, committee member.
Is the committee prepared to accept my convenership for the next two or three minutes? I hope that there will be no dissent.
Members indicated agreement.