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Scottish ParliamentLocal Government CommitteeTuesday 7 March 2000(Afternoon) The Convener opened the meeting at 14:03 We are three minutes late, so we should start.
Scottish ParliamentSocial Inclusion, Housing and Voluntary Sector CommitteeMonday 7 February 2000(Afternoon) The Convener opened the meeting in private at 14:11 Meeting continued in public.
In its free fruit initiative, Moray Council found that more than 90 per cent of the free fruit was partially or wholly eaten. The wastage rate was only about 7 or 8 per cent. I have not heard of such figures being contradicted by other councils.
If such organisations are held to be better informed about volunteers and employees, will that create new liabilities and therefore mean new costs for them?
I was involved in writing a book that suggested that people should be allowed to sit on committees. That was one of the new ideas for this Parliament, but there was political resistance to it.
In Dundee, we have a large problem of deprivation, with people who are on low incomes and have little access to private cars. Some bus services finish at 7 in the evening; some do not run on Sundays; and some run only infrequently on Sundays.
It is an interesting petition and it is good that the wider aspects that we heard about when we went on our pre-legislative visits have been brought to our attention.
We can decide to do the inquiry over a long period of time, so I do not envisage its being discussed at every meeting. The inquiry might involve some visits and so on, but not every committee member has to attend and the visits do not have to take place on the same days as committee meetings.