With regard to your recommendations around parliamentary review every five years, without the power for a parliamentary committee to actually bring in legislation based on that review, is that just another committee report that gathers dust on a parliamentary shelf if that government, which has the vested interest in protecting information, is not prepared to act on the recommendations? Is there another mechanism for ensuring that when a review of that kind is done recommendations get debated in the House and put forward in the form of legislation?
On March 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.