Developments

Economic Development Committee today - worthy but dull...only 2 moments of excitement - the first, the convenor agreed to withdraw the item on Newbridge on the pretext of an official complaint by Margaret Smith - frankly I think she was daft to complain...it's more than likely the Econ Dev committee would have voted to overturn the official recommendation anyway and she would have got what she wanted without further delay...and it's not very likely anybody is going to find the officials acted improperly...everything is open to interpretation and officials are ultra cautious by nature...I find the conspiracy theory awfully hard to swallow.

And secondly, it turns out Colin Hunter's job is to go to open competition in the Spring - which I think is a poor show and pretty mean reward for all his excellent work. After all, look at the results open competition produced both times before!