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She is attending the meeting as part of the Scottish Parliament business exchange programme. Michael Matheson is acting as her parliamentary host and she will sit behind him.
I remind members that at our next meeting on 6 November we will be joined by the European Parliament Petitions Committee. Members will receive the full programme, which will involve a lunch with members of the Petitions Committee after our committee meeting.
The first item on the agenda is to decide whether to hold the discussion on the forward work programme in private. Given that most committees do that and that it will allow the official reporters to take leave of us to do more important things, I suggest that we hold that part of the meeting in private.
I ask Mr Tom McCabe to move motion S1M-336, which proposes an addition to the business programme that was agreed last Thursday and relates to the timetabling of stage 3 of the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Bill.
We are working with the Scottish Prison Service to consider how we can build into the existing prison sentence management procedures processes that will assist prisoners to move into the community.
That the Parliament agrees that the Justice 2 Committee be designated as lead committee in consideration of the draft Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005.
However, as Duncan McNeil said, that returns us to the latter part of the motion, which concerns the assistance that the Executive can give to prevent legal actions from being subject to delays in the courts.
That subsection deals with the circumstance in which a pupil has been exempted from attending school because they have to give assistance to a member of their family who is ill.