Thank you very much for having taken the time to come to testify before us at such short notice.
The reason why I let Mr. Batters go blithely on past the amount of time he had been allotted is that the next member of our panel has still not arrived, if I am not mistaken. He was scheduled for 3:30 p.m. and it was not possible to reach him in order to ask him to come earlier.
The committee will have to decide what it wants to do. I suppose that we could perhaps agree to have a short session as soon as he arrives, and hope that he arrives a little earlier. Is that agreeable for everyone? Do not go too far, because if he arrives before 3:30 p.m., we will start again right away so that we wrap up as quickly as possible.
We will take a recess.