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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?
I have travelled through fiscals' offices and, time and again, I am hit by the energy and new dynamic in them, which is given by new management, training for management and the environment in which people now work.
I am interested in the idea of the children's champion going out to visit schools. Can you see that it might be difficult for one person to go to all the schools in Scotland?
I would be delighted to visit that part of the member's constituency to address those matters and any others to convince people that there should be a reasonable way forward in local taxation and to allow them to form their own opinions about which party is most likely to deliver that.