I can confidently say that the clerk updates me on any communications that we receive. The answer would be the same as it was during the last meeting, that invitations had gone out initially, many months ago now, but that there has been no response to those invitations.
This is a perfect time for me, since we've already made a small interjection here, to update you all that the clerk and the team in the room reached out to me just five minutes ago. I was just waiting for a good time to make the announcement that we have a similar situation with the interpreters needing to switch over at 2 o'clock as we had last time. I guess it is due to a shortage of interpreters that we are seeing this. We haven't necessarily seen this in other meetings we've had. At 2 o'clock, they will need half an hour to switch over if we do want to resume at 2:30. At 2:30, the cleaners would have to come in if we were to allow the agriculture committee to proceed from this room at that point. At 3 o'clock, we will have votes with no bells.
I just want to inform all of you of that. You don't have to decide immediately what you want to do, but I wanted to put that out there since I just heard from the clerk that this is the situation.
If anyone wants to respond to what I've just announced, feel free to do so at this point, since I have interrupted Ms. Duncan's speech. I will have to suspend at 2 o'clock so the interpreters can switch over. I will let you know a little before that, and at that point, before we suspend at 2 o'clock, you can let me know how you want to proceed.
Dr. Duncan.