Absolutely, Mr. Chairman.
The problem is that Mr. Cullen had submitted his notice at a meeting and the motion was distributed to committee members. Since the motion had already been submitted to the committee, there was nothing to be done until it was dealt with by the committee.
If Mr. Cullen — and this applies to any other member as well — had come to see me before submitting his notice, I could have mentioned the aspects of the motion that might give rise to problems. Since the motion had been distributed to the committee, my position was somewhat unclear. There could have been political implications. I did not know what the intentions were. Since committee members already had the motion, it was not really up to me to tell the mover of the motion that it should be changed, and then redistributed. Do you see what I mean?