Thank you.
Is there anything further on that?
On the next item of business, I want to give a little bit of background. When the prorogation took place back in December, we had a full agenda ahead of us.
Just for the benefit of the new members, the way the committee generally operates is that the agenda is discussed at the steering committee, which generally meets once a week. The steering committee comes forward with a draft agenda, which is then ratified by the committee as a whole.
Prior to prorogation, the committee had approved four chapters from the fall report of the Auditor General of Canada. We'll circulate the document right now, before we go any further. That will be easier. Unfortunately, the rules of the committee prohibit the circulation of these documents prior to the committee being constituted. I know it is a little cumbersome.
Just so that it flows in chronological order, I'll do it a little differently. The document that you have before you talks about the status of public accounts committee reports. Instead of doing the possible future chapters, I'll go to page 1.
When we hear a report, we generally have a hearing. We spend some time writing a report. The report is then tabled in Parliament. The government then has 120 days to respond to any recommendations we make in the report.
When Parliament was prorogued, we had 12 reports at various stages of completion. Those reports are all listed on page 1. You can see that the first four were actually done and completed. They were adopted in full by this committee; however, there was not sufficient time for them to be translated and tabled in the House of Commons.
The next two were actually before the committee and revised. They were deliberated upon and there were some revisions made by the analysts.
The next six were ready for committee review. The committee had held the hearing, but did not have the actual time to do the report. You can see that there are different stages of the review.
What I would recommend is to deal with these reports separately. I would recommend that the committee bring them back before the committee in the form they were in prior to prorogation, as if prorogation didn't exist, and we would have all 12 before us to deal with as soon as possible.