I might know what you said I might know, but I also know that not all staff who work in your office when you're a member of the executive are paid by the department. You still have parliamentary staff. I think in that sense that staff is available to you.
What I had alluded to was the confidential nature of the business we discuss sometimes, and that's why it's important to have House of Commons staff. Although Ms. Black has an objection, I would have no objection to someone sitting and listening, because if they are under certain oaths of confidentiality or a code of conduct and they are employed by the government at large, I think that would be a common sense approach. If we're discussing something here and it is of a confidential nature and we're not supposed to go out and say something about it, I'm assuming that person wouldn't go and say something about it in a place that he or she shouldn't say anything.