Equal Opportunities Committee, 23 Oct 2007

Meeting date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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Interests

Good morning and welcome to the fourth meeting of the Equal Opportunities Committee in session 3. I remind everyone, including members, that mobile phones and BlackBerrys should be turned off, because even when they are switched to silent they interfere with the sound system. We have received no apologies.

The first item on the agenda is a declaration of interests. I warmly welcome Michael McMahon back to the committee—he was a member of a previous Equal Opportunities Committee—and ask him whether he has any relevant interests to declare.

Thank you for welcoming me back to the committee, convener. I have no interests to declare other than those that are already set out in the register of members' interests.

Thank you for that.