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Next week I will attend a St Andrew's day ball in Warsaw, as part of a wider visit to Poland, and we will distribute 86 event packs to Foreign and Commonwealth Office overseas posts, to help them to celebrate the day.
I welcome our witnesses, who are Angela O'Hagan, the convener of the Scottish women's budget group; Dr Ailsa McKay of the Caledonian business school; and Rona Fitzgerald, visiting professor at the Caledonian business school.
I am sure that some of us have been overcome with nostalgia, and if not overcome with nostalgia, visited with innovatory zeal to understand the delights of tenemental dwelling and ownership.
Observer status would mean that COSLA representatives would be treated as if they were visiting the committee, but they would have that status if they were merely to sit in the public gallery, and they would be excluded from the committee when it moved into private session.
The situation that comes to mind is the flock and herd that we had to cull in Sutherland, miles and miles away from the nearest Scottish outbreak, because a gentleman from Sutherland had visited an area where there was disease.
No one from the two Dunfermline groups had visited the Parliament. We expected those groups to have more to say about physical access, but they did not.
The councillor is not looking for a particular outcome, but rather raising a point of concern.The other great trick at planning committees when you could not win your vote was to call for a site visit, so that the committee could see everything for itself.