Health and Sport Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, September 11, 2012

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Interests

Good morning and welcome to the 23rd meeting in 2012 of the Health and Sport Committee. I remind everyone present that mobile phones and BlackBerrys should be turned off, as they can interfere with the sound system.

Apologies have been received from Duncan McNeil MSP. I understand that Richard Lyle MSP hopes to attend the meeting, but he has been delayed.

Agenda item 1 is a declaration of interests. This is the first meeting of the committee that George Adam is attending as a committee member. Welcome, George. In accordance with section 3 of the code of conduct, I invite you to declare any interests that are relevant to the committee’s remit. I remind you that any declaration should be brief, but sufficiently detailed to make clear to any listener the nature of the interest.

I refer everyone to my entry in the register of interests. For completeness, I add that, until May this year, I was a councillor on Renfrewshire Council and a board member of Renfrewshire Leisure Trust. Apart from that and being a St Mirren Football Club season ticket holder, I do not think that there is anything else to declare.

It is important that you made that last declaration of interest. I thank you for putting that on the record. Welcome to the committee.