Education, Culture and Sport Committee, 06 Oct 1999
Meeting date: Wednesday, October 6, 1999
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Scottish Parliament Education, Culture and Sport Committee Wednesday 6 October 1999 (Morning)
[The Convener opened the meeting at 09:32]
Good morning, everyone. A number of members have yet to join us, but they are on their way.
I should like to take a couple of minutes to explain how we will proceed this morning. The Scottish Joint Negotiating Committee management side has been allotted 45 minutes to make an initial statement and to take questions from committee members. Representatives from the SJNC teachers' side have been allotted 45 minutes for the same process. That should take us to approximately 11 o'clock. At that stage, the committee will take a comfort break for 10 minutes, because I am aware that we are prone to overrunning and I thought that we should build in a little break.
At 11.10, the minister and his deputy will join us, and we will have an hour to ask them questions. Following their presentation and after they leave us, I ask committee members to remain for 10 or 15 minutes so that we can go through some housekeeping matters such as the visits to schools and meetings after the recess: please spare some time to do that.