Constituents!
We decided to take the long weekend off. This was the first time that we have actually taken a local holiday, as normally we have to work. However, Little Teddies was closed for staff training and we made the most of the opportunity.
On Monday, we had a long lie and spent the morning with the kids around the house, with no worries or deadlines.
At 10am the doorbell rang once – and we decided to ignore it. On the second ring, we were toying with whether or not to answer it, but the kids made that decision by shouting upstairs to tell us there was someone at the door. I went downstairs after the third ring, assuming it must be important.
It was a constituent with an envelope full of papers relating to a committee decision to which he objected. Leaving aside the fact that it was a holiday; that he could have pushed it through the letterbox; or, he could have put it inside the open front door, I took the papers to read later.
Having read the fifty pages or so, it appears the complainant is objecting to the constitution of the committee, the qualifications of the professionals who gave evidence, and the bias of the council officer against him. Add into that a Data Protection Act request, and complaints about the matters disclosed and there is an almost incomprehensible mix of supposition, factual inaccuracy and sheer unpleasantness.
I must confess an interest, as the Chair of the relevant committee I come in for particular abuse, not least that before the meeting the objector had tried to discuss the matters with me, and then accused me of planning to run a meeting inherently biased against the objector.
I think that there were seven copies of this document circulated to the panel members, Comhairle officials and some others, and given it’s total irrelevance I’m sure they have all filed it in the appropriate recycling container.
On Monday, we had a long lie and spent the morning with the kids around the house, with no worries or deadlines.
At 10am the doorbell rang once – and we decided to ignore it. On the second ring, we were toying with whether or not to answer it, but the kids made that decision by shouting upstairs to tell us there was someone at the door. I went downstairs after the third ring, assuming it must be important.
It was a constituent with an envelope full of papers relating to a committee decision to which he objected. Leaving aside the fact that it was a holiday; that he could have pushed it through the letterbox; or, he could have put it inside the open front door, I took the papers to read later.
Having read the fifty pages or so, it appears the complainant is objecting to the constitution of the committee, the qualifications of the professionals who gave evidence, and the bias of the council officer against him. Add into that a Data Protection Act request, and complaints about the matters disclosed and there is an almost incomprehensible mix of supposition, factual inaccuracy and sheer unpleasantness.
I must confess an interest, as the Chair of the relevant committee I come in for particular abuse, not least that before the meeting the objector had tried to discuss the matters with me, and then accused me of planning to run a meeting inherently biased against the objector.
I think that there were seven copies of this document circulated to the panel members, Comhairle officials and some others, and given it’s total irrelevance I’m sure they have all filed it in the appropriate recycling container.
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