It's this, Chair. I made concessions. We all move pieces around and they're all done in good faith and in good humour and I like you, but the way the committee has got to be able to function is that when we set things down, we set things down. The constant revisiting and moving and new inventions of the day for drafting, which is not something I've ever heard of from a committee before, is fine. But don't pretend that this is what we agreed to all along. I've made those concessions and that's all fine and well.
What I was hoping to avoid for you is the vote against the motion that the environment and climate change committee studies climate change in a six-month period in which the government has said, it's your top priority. I didn't think it was all that contentious, but apparently it is because you can't seem to get to it. It's always being bumped. The idea of putting it on the last day or the second last day of the House sitting is well and good. It's like saying, maybe, possibly, we'll see what happens. That's fine too.
I just want to know what the rules are and how we're going to negotiate these things so that I can have some sort of clarity as to whether I invest any time in the conversation or not, rather than investing the time and making the concessions three times, and then having it revisited again and again. Surprisingly always having the thing I'm trying to push forward fall to the bottom of the list has been consistent throughout this. Forgive me if I sound a bit aggravated about it but how many conversations about it have been on the committee calendar? It's just incredible.