Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Chairman, we're now discussing the actual report itself. I think it's no secret by now that I have reservations about this, for a variety of reasons. I don't intend to go through them all over again. Indeed, I don't propose to make any further amendments. I do think this was not handled by a process that I would have approved of in advance had I known it was going to be this way. I don't think we've had a proper opportunity to prepare ourselves. I don't think we'll be nearly as fulsome as we could be in our discussion with the witnesses. I don't think we have adequate documentation at our disposal.
Having said that, however, my colleagues and I have tried several times to introduce proposals that would bring some order to this, that would, as I indicated, not turn this into a court of star chamber, which is what I am afraid it might become. Those are my objections.
I've seen no evidence that anything we say is going to change that. It would simply mean we'd come to the same wrong conclusion at a later point in time. That would be disrespectful to everybody here. Therefore, I am not proposing any further changes to the report. I would encourage my colleagues on this side to do the same and allow us simply to go directly to a vote on the motion.