I wonder whether another routine motion might be in order specifying that legislation has priority within this committee. In other words, it would read something along the lines that the consideration and examination of any government or private member's bill that falls within the express mandate of the committee shall take precedence over any study or non-legislative examination other than questions of privilege. In such circumstances, the non-legislative study shall be deferred until such time as the bill is reported back to the House.
It's basically just saying that if legislation makes its way to us--it doesn't happen too often in this committee, but it might--it would take priority over another study. So we wouldn't be able to not deal with legislation, according to this.