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The Convener Lab Committee
11 Sep 2013
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Preliminary Stage
Mr MacIntyre, you spoke briefly about this issue in your opening statement, but the council has indicated that it is keen for the bill to be enacted before the current planning consent for the park site ends in February 2014. What were the main factors in the timing of the bil...
The Convener Lab Committee
11 Sep 2013
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Preliminary Stage
Sorry, Mr MacIntyre, but let me stop you there. I ask those in the public gallery to refrain from commenting, as they have now done on a few occasions.
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
If you have an additional point to make that has not been raised, I will allow time for that, but in order that we get through all the evidence, I ask that you do not repeat the evidence that we have heard. As you know, we have a very long agenda and only a short time availabl...
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
I understand that he asked the question. I am not directing my comments to you, Mr Burns. If you had looked at me, you would have seen that I was looking at Mr MacIntyre.
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Excuse me, but we are on the promoter’s questions. The time has been taken for your questions, but information will be provided. Is that okay, Mr MacIntyre?
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Thank you, Mr MacIntyre.
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Mr MacIntyre, we are on questions from the objectors at the moment.
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Mr MacIntyre, can we have the audit?
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Is that a public paper, Mr MacIntyre?
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Again, Mr Burns.As long as the information—if you have it, Mr MacIntyre—can be provided to those objectors who are asking the questions at the moment, that is fine.
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
I understand the link. We are sort of branching out, but I understand where you are coming from. If you can furnish the information if you have it, Mr MacIntyre, that would be helpful for Ms Dunn.
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Okay. Mr MacIntyre may answer that.
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Is that okay, Mr MacIntyre?
The Convener Lab Committee
26 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Mr MacIntyre, would you like to come back on the points raised?
The Convener Lab Committee
12 Mar 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
That is a matter for the council to decide. There were circumstances outwith Mr MacIntyre’s control, and the committee agreed to his not being here. Does the promoter wish to respond on that point?
The Convener Lab Committee
07 May 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
As the group 1 oral evidence session was not completed on 23 April, the witnesses for that group and the promoter have been invited back to conclude proceedings. Obviously, the committee will consider the evidence from this session during its consideration of objections later ...
The Convener Lab Committee
07 May 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Thank you. Mr MacIntyre, if you have any comments to make on what Ms Connelly said, make them very brief, because we are on final comments.
The Convener Lab Committee
07 May 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
The council is saying—please bear with me, Mr MacIntyre—that it did not. You are saying that it did, and the council is saying that it did not.
The Convener Lab Committee
07 May 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Excuse me, Mr Hawkins, but Mr MacIntyre was speaking.
The Convener Lab Committee
07 May 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Yes, but when someone is speaking you do not speak over them—that is a basic rule of manners. I ask Mr MacIntyre to continue.
The Convener Lab Committee
07 May 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Given your previous acknowledgement, I thought that you had heard me the first time. Continue, Mr MacIntyre.
The Convener Lab Committee
07 May 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
It is not for Mr MacIntyre to speak on behalf of the council leader.
The Convener Lab Committee
07 May 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
I did not accept Mr MacIntyre’s point. I said that it had been made.
The Convener Lab Committee
07 May 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
I am sorry, but could the objectors please stop talking to one another when Mr MacIntyre is speaking?
The Convener Lab Committee
07 May 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Mr MacIntyre, it is for me to ask that.
The Convener Lab Committee
07 May 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Do you have any questions for the objectors, Mr MacIntyre?
The Convener Lab Committee
23 Apr 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Do you have any other comments on these issues, Mr MacIntyre?
The Convener Lab Committee
23 Apr 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Do you have questions for the objectors, Mr MacIntyre?
The Convener Lab Committee
23 Apr 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Thank you. Does Mr MacIntyre have a statement?
The Convener Lab Committee
23 Apr 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
I am sorry, Mr MacIntyre. What is the purpose of the questioning, Ms Klein?
The Convener Lab Committee
23 Apr 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
For clarification, Mr MacIntyre—was the note put out by the council?
The Convener Lab Committee
23 Apr 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Those comments are on the record, but I do not think that we need anybody to respond to them. Do you have any questions for the objectors on the issue, Mr MacIntyre?
The Convener Lab Committee
23 Apr 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Mr MacIntyre.
The Convener Lab Committee
23 Apr 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Mr MacIntyre, if you just—
The Convener Lab Committee
23 Apr 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
Mr MacIntyre, please give Ms Connelly a chance to ask her question.
The Convener Lab Committee
23 Apr 2014
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Consideration Stage
I understand that Ms Cairns wants to comment, but Mr MacIntyre can reply first.
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City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill Committee 11 September 2013

11 Sep 2013 · S4 · City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill Committee
Item of business
City of Edinburgh Council (Portobello Park) Bill: Preliminary Stage
McMahon, Siobhan Lab Central Scotland Watch on SPTV
Mr MacIntyre, you spoke briefly about this issue in your opening statement, but the council has indicated that it is keen for the bill to be enacted before the current planning consent for the park site ends in February 2014. What were the main factors in the timing of the bill’s introduction?

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The Convener Lab
Item 2 is evidence from our witnesses. I welcome you all, and ask you to introduce yourselves briefly.
Billy MacIntyre (City of Edinburgh Council)
Good morning. I am the head of resources in the children and families department in the City of Edinburgh Council, and the sponsor for the project.
Iain Strachan (City of Edinburgh Council)
I am a principal solicitor in legal services in the council.
John Baker (City of Edinburgh Council)
I am senior project manager in the services for communities department in the council, and project co-ordinator for the project.
Charles Livingstone (Brodies LLP)
I am an associate with Brodies LLP.
The Convener Lab
Before we hear your opening statement and take questions from committee members, I will ask members a few questions regarding future meetings and the decisio...
The Convener Lab
Are members also content to take in private discussions to come up with a plan for future witnesses?Members indicated agreement.
The Convener Lab
I would like to put on record something that has come up in much of the evidence that we have received on both sides of the debate. Although information may ...
Billy MacIntyre
Convener, I have an opening statement, which I will restrict to the 10 minutes that I believe I am allocated.
The Convener Lab
Thank you.
Billy MacIntyre
I thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee this morning. In my opening statement I will address the key issues: the urgent need to replace Por...
The Convener Lab
Thank you. Before we go to questions, I should mention that the committee has received written evidence from Andrew Ferguson, Professor Robert Rennie and Rod...
Alison McInnes (North East Scotland) (LD) LD
I understand that, in his paper, Professor Rennie also refers to Aberdeenshire Council. I was previously a councillor in Aberdeenshire, but I have not had an...
The Convener Lab
Mr MacIntyre, you spoke briefly about this issue in your opening statement, but the council has indicated that it is keen for the bill to be enacted before t...
Billy MacIntyre
The bill was introduced as soon as the council could practically do so. There has been a requirement to replace Portobello high school for a considerable per...
The Convener Lab
Thank you for that answer. The promoter’s memorandum outlines that other avenues were open to you, such as appealing the inner house’s decision to the Suprem...
Billy MacIntyre
My colleague Iain Strachan will answer that.
Iain Strachan
I am happy to. As Mr MacIntyre said, we outlined the other potential options in our report to the council in October 2012. Obviously, the committee needs to ...
The Convener Lab
Thank you, Mr Strachan, for a comprehensive response.I have a follow-up question. You mentioned that other options that were considered were a ministerial or...
Iain Strachan
We would never be presumptuous about what the Parliament might wish to do. We assessed private bills that had previously gone through the Parliament—I believ...
James Dornan (Glasgow Cathcart) (SNP) SNP
You say that you have considered a number of alternative sites. Will you tell us about the comparative analysis of all the possible sites that is contained i...
Billy MacIntyre
The initial analysis of sites that were potentially available for a new school was undertaken back in 2006. That predated the council’s original decision to ...
James Dornan SNP
At present, you have the option before us, if the bill is successful, or the existing site, because you do not have the Baileyfield site, as such. Will you r...
Billy MacIntyre
The council approved the proposal to acquire Baileyfield in November. We submitted an initial bid in December and we were successfully shortlisted. Our final...
James Dornan SNP
I have a question about the common good status. Paragraph 15 of your memorandum states that the bill’s purpose is to change the status of the park from inali...
Billy MacIntyre
I will pass that over to my colleague Mr Livingstone.
Charles Livingstone
The council’s intention is that the land would remain inalienable common good land for all other purposes, if and when the bill is enacted and following any ...
The Convener Lab
My colleague Alison McInnes will ask about the consultation process.
Alison McInnes LD
In your introductory remarks, Mr MacIntyre, you stated that there was resounding public support for the bill. The committee needs to be satisfied that the co...
Billy MacIntyre
Will you clarify those three points?