Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, December 14, 2022

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Decision on Taking Business in Private

Good morning, and welcome to this special meeting of the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee in 2022. I say “special”, because I am especially pleased to welcome members of the citizens panel on participation, who will discuss with us their report and the recommendations that arose from it.

We have received apologies from our colleague Fergus Ewing, who is not able to be with us today, as well as from—sadly, at the last minute—Alexander Stewart, who was supposed to be joining us remotely from deepest, darkest Bridge of Allan, where I thought communications still reached. However, he has had communications issues and is unable to join us this morning.

Agenda item 1 is a decision on taking business in private. Are the committee members who are present—David Torrance and Paul Sweeney—content to take item 3 in private?

Members indicated agreement.