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Interests I call today's meeting of the Local Government and Transport Committee to order.Item 1 is a declaration of interest. I welcome Mike Rumbles MSP to the committee. I look forward to his contribution over the forthcoming months.
Petitions I welcome committee members, witnesses, the press, members of the public and a visiting MSP colleague to the Environment and Rural Development Committee.
That the Parliament agrees that Colin Fox MSP, Frances Curran MSP, Rosie Kane MSP and Carolyn Leckie MSP be excluded from all proceedings of the Parliament for the month of September 2005 and that their right of access to the Parliament...
We have asked the general public not to discuss specific cases in their evidence to us, so we should not make an exception for MSPs in that respect. However, we could ask MSPs to comment generally.
The Millan committee supported the right of the individual, as did the advocacy organisations and service professionals who were consulted. The vast majority of MSPs who spoke in the MSP policy debate supported that right.
In January, I obtained a members' business debate on the subject and received cross-party support from Fife MSPs and MSPs on the Mid Scotland and Fife list.