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Petitions I welcome committee members, witnesses, the press, members of the public and a visiting MSP colleague to the Environment and Rural Development Committee.
I believe that a committee substitute might also come along later to take Irene's place.Given that this is Nora Radcliffe's first visit to the committee, I ask her to declare any relevant interests.
I welcome you to this meeting of the Rural Development Committee. I also welcome the visiting members, who are Rhona Brankin, who is the Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development, Mike Watson, David Mundell, Murray Tosh and Jamie Stone.
Appointment of Reporter The next item is the appointment of a reporter for the forthcoming visit to Northern Ireland. Does any member wish to propose a reporter?
It summarises areas in which the committee expressed an interest in the past and during the visit to Brussels, when some interesting presentations were made to us.
We want—in addition to a formal meeting of the committee—to carry out some fact-finding visits in Dalry. Perhaps the best way to do that, given that Dalry is a good two-hour drive from Edinburgh, would be to go to Dalry on Monday and carry out the fact-finding visits in the afternoon and early evening.
This does not affect the right of any Member representing a constituency or area to raise a matter on behalf of a constituent. School visits Where schools visit the Parliament, constituency Members should be invited to attend as a matter of course.