Okay.
Well, this time it's definitely more in sorrow than in anger that I suggest to the government, Chair, through you and to you, that based on the discussions we've had, if you can move us through the procedures to give effect to what we've talked about, then it's going to be up to us and you as parliamentarians to honour the commitments we're all making here, some of them short-term, some of them longer-term. Then I think we have a chance to at least pull some dignity out of this process, and perhaps at the very least the discussions we'll have with witnesses will be a little closer to having the kind of honour that citizens look for from us.
I remain optimistic, not because there's evidence to be so on this bill but because of the understanding we have that's very clear now. I would hope that it's beyond this government to even contemplate going against this, because, quite frankly, we are entering into a deal of honour. So it's with great reluctance but acceptance of the chessboard that I do relinquish the floor.