Communities Committee, 19 Apr 2006
Meeting date: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Official Report
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Item in Private
I open the 12th meeting of the Communities Committee in 2006 and remind everyone that mobile phones should be switched off. We have received apologies from Tricia Marwick, who is chairing another committee this morning.
Before we consider agenda item 1, I place on record the committee's thanks to Mary Scanlon, who recently resigned from the committee and the Parliament. We will all want to recognise Mary's contribution to the committee in the past three years. She was a hard-working member who played an active role on the committee and made good contributions during the passage of the Antisocial Behaviour etc (Scotland) Bill, the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Bill and the Housing (Scotland) Bill. She was very interested in the Planning etc (Scotland) Bill, which the committee is currently considering, and I am sure that her contribution to the committee will be missed. We wish her well in the future.
Hear, hear.
Item 1 is consideration of whether to take in private item 5, which concerns the committee's draft stage 1 report on the Planning etc (Scotland) Bill, and future items relating to the stage 1 report. Do members agree to take those items in private?
Members indicated agreement.