I call this meeting back to order. I want to thank members for their patience.
We have two very small housekeeping items to address.
Mr. Hoback had raised the issue with us regarding pre-budget consultations. Typically, the committee has adopted a motion that we not have substantive motions during pre-budget consultations to enable the committee to do its work and to not allow for interruption of witnesses. I'm going to move a motion that I recommend we adopt as a committee:
That the Committee, for meetings outside of its regular schedule, do not consider any substantive motions.
What that means is if members or parties want to bring motions forward, they would have to do so between 3:30 and 5:30 on Mondays and Wednesdays, and the motion would have to be addressed in that time as well. As you all know, we've added a number of hours especially for pre-budget consultations; this motion would not allow motions to occur from, say, 5:30 to 6:30 on Monday and Wednesday evenings or Tuesday and Thursday meetings.
Go ahead, Mrs. Glover.