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The committee looks forward to hearing people's views on how the public petitions system works.We are out of our normal surroundings, therefore it might be best if members of the committee were to introduce themselves before we take agenda item 1, so that members of the public who have turned up have an idea of who is sitting in front of them.
As convener, I have had a very good working relationship with Mr Wallace and I am sure that the committee will join me in wishing him all the best for the future. Hear, hear. Item 1 is consideration of a piece of subordinate legislation.
The Scottish Conservative party will continue to oppose such Scottish statutory instruments, because we have consistently argued that the best approach is to adopt end-product testing.I understand that the Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care intends to hold in a fortnight's time a briefing session about shellfish monitoring.
Does he agree that Fife is an exemplar of best practice, given the work that is being carried out there by the police and projects such as the Drug and Alcohol Project (Levenmouth)?
We have tried to persuade the Labour group to shift the date for its away day, but it will not. I am sorry. We have done our best. We always have this difficulty, to a degree.
I congratulate the people who found all those errors, but the problem is that, despite what I am sure were their best efforts, they might not have found all of them.
In an answer to a question from Karen Gillon last month, I said that I would be more than happy to meet her but, at that stage, we concluded that it might be best if we waited until we had fully considered the judgment.