Committee
Public Petitions Committee, 25 Mar 2003
25 Mar 2003 · S1 · Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
Convener's Report
The Apex hotel, which is in the Grassmarket.
In the same item of business
The Convener:
Lab
The only item that remains to be dealt with is the convener's report. There is nothing to report, other than to thank members of the committee for the way in...
Dr Ewing:
SNP
Outstanding.
The Convener:
Lab
The way in which they have coped with a tremendous amount of work under very trying circumstances has been utterly awe inspiring. Any success that the commit...
Dr Ewing:
SNP
There is one more thing to be said. We must thank the chair. I have been on countless committees in three Parliaments and you have been one of the best chair...
The Convener:
Lab
Thanks very much.
Dr Ewing:
SNP
You have been courteous to all the petitioners and courteous to—and patient with—all the committee members, who have sometimes been unruly. The Public Petiti...
The Convener:
Lab
Very well said.I remind members that we have a meeting with the German petitions committee this afternoon at half-past 2 in the Apex hotel—there will be dinn...
John Farquhar Munro:
LD
Where are we at half-past 2?
The Convener:
Lab
The Apex hotel, which is in the Grassmarket.
John Farquhar Munro:
LD
Are we having lunch at half-past 1?
Dorothy-Grace Elder:
Ind
Yes, we are having lunch at half-past 1. I have a Health and Community Care Committee meeting at 2 o'clock.
The Convener:
Lab
It was at 10 o'clock this morning.
Dorothy-Grace Elder:
Ind
You are joking.
The Convener:
Lab
No. The Health and Community Care Committee was meeting at the same time as this committee. I sent my apologies.
Dorothy-Grace Elder:
Ind
I had the meeting down as taking place at 2 o'clock. What happened about hepatitis C?
The Convener:
Lab
I do not know, because the meeting was taking place at the same time as this one.
Dorothy-Grace Elder:
Ind
Hepatitis C was the issue that I was worried about.
The Convener:
Lab
Thank you all for all your work.
Helen Eadie:
Lab
I must give my apologies for this afternoon, because I have a meeting of the European and External Relations Committee.
The Convener:
Lab
We bring the first Public Petitions Committee to a close.
Meeting closed at 12:49.