Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, June 22, 2021

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Convener

Agenda item 2 is choice of convener. The procedure for choosing the committee’s convener is explained in paper 2.

The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party are eligible for nomination as conveners of the committee. I invite a member of that party to nominate a candidate.

I nominate Finlay Carson.

Finlay Carson was chosen as convener.

I congratulate Finlay Carson on his appointment as convener of the Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee. I look forward to working with you, convener.

Thank you very much. I appreciate your kind words, and I am absolutely delighted and honoured to take on the role as committee convener. I note that the committee’s acronym is, unfortunately, RAINE, which is not quite as nice as the acronym of the predecessor committee that I sat on, which sounded like “éclair”.

I am quite sure that this committee will be a fascinating one. It will have a huge amount of work to do in an area that I know all the members have a particular interest, and I look forward to working with all of you, the clerks and the Scottish Parliament information centre over the next few months.