Welcome back to the 57th meeting of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. For your information, the meeting is now being televised. We are pleased to have with us today the Honourable Geoff Regan, Speaker of the House of Commons. He is accompanied by the acting clerk Marc Bosc and officials from parliamentary protective service: acting director Mike O'Beirne, and Robert Graham, administration and personnel officer.
On behalf of the committee I would like thank you for making yourselves available on short notice. Your expertise and input in this matter is invaluable. I know you are all very busy so we appreciate your being here today. I'll ask the Speaker for his opening remarks. At this meeting we're talking about the structure of administration and security, not a particular issue at this time but the overall structure.
I would ask committee members when you're doing your questioning to try to exhaust any questions for the Speaker at this meeting. We may have to ask these witnesses back because we got truncated by half an hour, but the Speaker may not come back if we can get those particular questions finished today.
Mr. Speaker, thank you for coming.