 My name is John Mason, and I am the MSP for Glasgow Shetleston. It falls to me to lead the first two items on the agenda today because I am the oldest member of the committee. I have to say that it was something of a shock to find out that I was the oldest member, but there we go. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all members, and I look forward to working with colleagues on the committee for the interests of the public. There are seven members on the committee. If I can just say that I find the committee work that we do in Parliament one of the most fulfilling and satisfying things that we do here, and I very much look forward to being in the finance committee once again, and I am looking forward to working with everybody else here. Before we move to the first item on the agenda, I remind people to switch off their mobile phones, as they can obviously be heard if their microphone is on. We have had no apologies for today's meeting. Item 1 is declaration of interest, and each of us has to declare any interests that are relevant to the work of the committee. Backyard information has been provided to members. First, if I can declare my own interests, I am a member of the Institute of Charter Accountants of Scotland, and they often have input in the committee, so I thought that I should declare that. I will then run through the rest of the committee members. First will be Kenneth Gibson to be followed by Michelle Thomson. Thank you very much, John. I have no relevant interests to declare. Michelle Thomson to be followed by Liz Smith. Good morning, everybody. I am a former employee of what was known as Standard Life, but hold no shares. I am a former employee of what was known as Royal Bank of Scotland, but hold no shares. I am a sole trader of Thomson Holdings, a property investment company for buy to let residential property. I receive some income from this, which is declared on my register of interests. I am a director of Senza Ritt Ltd, a property management company for residential property. I receive a benefit in kind in the form of life cover, but no income from this, which is declared on my register of interests. I am a former adviser to the Northern Ireland Assembly, all party group on fair banking and finance. I received no remuneration for this. I am a current ambassador of the Westminster, all party parliamentary group for fair business banking. I receive no remuneration for this. Michelle Thomson to be followed by Douglas Lumsden. Thank you, convener. I have no relevant interests to declare for this committee. Thank you, Liz. I move on to Douglas Lumsden to be followed by Daniel Johnson. Thank you, John. I would like to remind everyone that I am still a member of Aberdeen City Council as an elected councillor. Thank you very much, Douglas. Daniel Johnson to be followed by Patrick Harvie. I am a director and sole shareholder of a company that has retail interests. I am a member of the trade unions, ASDAW and community. I am also the vice chair of the charity, the ADHD foundation. Thank you very much, Daniel. I move on to Patrick Harvie. Thank you. I do not believe that I have any interests relevant to this committee that needs to be declared. Thank you very much, Patrick. We now move to item 2, which is the choice of convener. The committee's next task is to choose the convener and the procedure has been explained. The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish National Party are eligible for nomination as convener of this committee. Therefore, can I ask any member of the Scottish National Party to make a nomination? I nominate Kenneth Gibson. Thanks, Michelle. Are there any other nominations? No. Do we agree to choose Kenneth Gibson as our convener? If any member objects to this, could they please type N in the chat box? I am not seeing any objections. Therefore, I congratulate Kenneth on his appointment and I now hand over to him to convene the rest of the meeting. Thank you very much, John. I would like to welcome everyone to the Finance and Public Administration Committee. I think that from the papers that we have had distributed already, we will see that it is going to be a very challenging year and indeed a very challenging five years. I am sure that everyone is ready for the tasks ahead. We have a small but, I believe, perfectly formed committee, and I am sure that we will all be able to work very well together for the good of the Parliament and the people that we represent. Moving on to agenda item 3, we have the choice of deputy convener. The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish Labour Party are eligible for nomination as deputy convener of this committee. Therefore, I would like to nominate Daniel Johnson as our deputy convener. If anyone has any objections, please put N in the chat box. I say that no one has objected. Therefore, I will all agree that Daniel Johnson will be the deputy convener of this committee. Congratulations, Daniel, and welcome aboard. Agenda item 4 is a decision on taking business in private. Are we agreed that we should indeed do so? Anyone disagrees, again type in in the chat box. We are agreed. Therefore, I want to move on to the final agenda item. Before I do so, I want to put on record my thanks to the session 5 Finance and Constitution Committee for their legacy report. It is very detailed. I am sure that everyone has looked at it. I know that it will be very helpful to us over the coming months as we consider our future work programme. We are now going into private session for the remainder of the meeting. Allow members a couple of minutes to leave BlueJeans and move to Microsoft Teams' private agenda item. See you soon.