I just wanted to.... Look, I understand that there is agreement to potentially table some amendments as we go through clause-by-clause. Inevitably, that's going to happen. My hope was--and I thought there was agreement from all four parties--that we were going to be submitting all of our amendments before we got to clause-by-clause so that we had an understanding of the direction we were taking. If someone or one of the parties is not... And, look, the only exception I can make is that, as Terry rightfully points out, how are you supposed to submit amendments to potential...?
That said, what the minister is going to be tabling isn't anything that's going into the bill itself. He's tabling regulations that we can potentially discuss and potentially provide advice to the minister on.
While I think your question is valid, it should be clear that we are not getting an amendment to a clause that you're not going to see before you submit your amendments. What you're not going to be able to see is what the regulations are going to look like before you've submitted your amendments.
While I understand the concern, it should be clear that we're talking about regulations. We're not talking about actual clauses within legislation. It's my hope that the reason we would be submitting amendments on the day of, versus in advance, is that you forgot something or you thought something came up, versus holding back nine or six or four amendments for no reason.
I know that's not under your control, Chair, but I thought we had an agreement on that among the parties.