An individual requesting reimbursement has a certain amount of time in which to do so. Is that three or six months after the event? Is this time limit left to the discretion of the chair? I would agree that we should leave it to the discretion of the chair to decide whether or not to increase the number of representatives. I would also agree that he do so for exceptional cases.
We recently experienced a similar situation. For one reason or another, the witness may forget or fail to submit the reimbursement request by the deadline. So I would like to give the chair some discretion, for exceptional situations, to allow expenditure reimbursements. I also understand that this clause does not mean that witnesses who appeared two years ago can be reimbursed today. That is not what I'm looking for. Rather, I would like us to be able to have some flexibility in that respect.