You could speak to witnesses, but there is no motion that allows for this, at the moment, because there was no minimum on that unanimous motion.
I think you may speak, in which case you could speak to anything. You could read from the phone book if you wanted to, Ms. Thomas, but the issue here is that you talked a lot about good faith. If the good faith is for us to get on with this, if the good faith is for us to move to getting this bill to its amendments and to clause-by-clause, then let's do that and not just use your amendment to continue to just speak about anything, or whatever you wish to speak to.
I already told you that there is an agreement on witnesses and on meetings. The meetings were for 20 hours. The witnesses have been asked and called and the witnesses have already spoken. We do not have any more meetings for witness hearings, Ms. Thomas.
We're talking about the motion brought by Mr. Bittle, which was on a deadline for amendments.
Now, I would like to hear what, if you are proposing three days before clause-by-clause, the deadline of those three days will mean, Ms. Thomas. That is what you need to answer in your amendment. What do you mean by that deadline of three days before clause-by-clause?
As the chair, I will tell you that we have finished what the committee, unanimously, asked me to do, which was to have 10 meetings, 20 hours, within the week of May 30. That has been achieved. We should, then, move to clause-by-clause and we should, then, set a deadline for amendments so that we can do that. This is what the orders of the day and the orders of this committee actually are intended to do.
I just want to let you know that and say that there is no room in your amendment to discuss anything to do with the number of witnesses we have yet to hear.
I have finished, Ms. Thomas.