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I will go over them for the benefit of those who are listening to or watching the meeting. Option 1 is to debate a single report, which would allow members to debate an issue, after which the appropriate minister could respond.
We now move into private session to discuss the draft reports on the financial memoranda on the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Bill and the Housing (Scotland) Bill. Meeting continued in private until 11:49.
That said, to be fair to the Executive, whatever else it does, at least it consults. In fact, most people I meet in the real world have consultation overload; they are fed up with it.
The assessors, with the Valuation Office Agency, which is the equivalent down south, meet regularly to devise schemes of valuations for hereditaments in England and property in Scotland and they ensure that they come up with similar methods of valuing.
Proposed Liability for Release of Genetically Modified Organisms (Scotland) Bill I welcome members, the press and members of the public to this meeting of the Environment and Rural Development Committee.
Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2004 (Incidental, Supplemental and Consequential Provisions) Order 2005 (draft) I welcome everyone to the 40th meeting in 2004 of the Justice 1 Committee.
I thank everyone for their attendance at this extra meeting. I am told that as I am a member of the SPCB I might be involved in authorising any Gaelic language plan that the Scottish Parliament would be required to produce under the legislation.