Having the ministers available for the full two hours.... It's important that we're not hiving off the officials. It's important that we also have the opportunity to ask the officials questions. Having the ministers available for two hours and the officials for an additional hour....
Instinctively, I would like to ask for the ministers to be here for three hours. I have lots of questions for both, but if we could focus on the ministers for two hours, members can use the time as they see fit and also ask the officials questions. I appreciate that their time is also valuable, but it's a little less hard to pin their schedules down than the ministers'.
My suggestion is that it would be three hours for the officials and a total of two hours that ministers would be available to the committee.