I'll just share with colleagues the concern that I think as parliamentarians we ought to have vis-à-vis agents and officers. If we take them from the public service, which we seem to be doing more and more, and they expect to go back to work, then the independence can be somewhat attenuated, if you will, because of the desire to perhaps go back into the public service after. I just want to flag that as a concern that perhaps all parliamentarians ought to have vis-à-vis our officers and our agents.
I don't intend, sir, to cast any aspersions towards you on that. But it's a matter of principle that we ought to be aware of and concerned with.