I'll certainly try to do that. I may ask Rose O'Reilly to back me up on this one, because she's likely to be able to bring more information to the floor.
The panel process was expanded to include more agents of Parliament than initially envisaged because of the interest expressed by the agents of Parliament and the fact that the compelling issue here, the conflict of interest issue, was felt to be shared by all of them--shared to different degrees, because of their different levels of interaction, and from different angles, because of their varying mandates. They saw it as a horizontal issue that cut across them as a group. Because we wanted to deal with that issue and all agents of Parliament on a level playing field to the degree that we could, we felt there was merit in including a broader group.
We didn't think the movement to the larger group would be too weighty or more than the panel could handle once this gets to steady state, in that the number is still quite limited, so we weren't worried particularly about volume. We were more interested in ensuring that if this problem existed in more than one relationship an agent of Parliament had with the secretariat, we would be able to resolve it in as many places as possible with one tool.
As for the inclusion of the Ethics Commissioner, it comes back to the legislation setting out the fact that their funding levels and considerations will be dealt with by the Board of Internal Economy.