It is so moved. Is there any discussion on that? All in favour?
(Motion agreed to)
The motion has passed unanimously.
The clerk has just pointed out a technical issue, but I think we can handle it at the next meeting.
The motion that we've passed brought them all back before the committee. The first four you see on that list have actually been adopted by the committee, but what I propose to do at the first meeting of the committee, which should only take 10 seconds, is adopt them, and then they will be tabled in the House at the first possible date.
The next issue, if you want to thumb over to page 2, is “Possible Future Studies”. You will see paragraph A, “Fall 2009 Report”. That was tabled in the fall and ratified by the general committee. The steering committee agreed to have hearings on chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5. The clerk was in the process of arranging hearings. In fact, the first one would have been on January 26.
I would recommend to the committee that the same decision, made by the steering committee and ratified by the committee, be adopted by this committee so that the clerk can immediately start work on having a hearing by the committee. She can't do anything until this motion is passed.
Given the time constraints, there obviously will not be one next Tuesday, which of course will be devoted to drafting reports. It could be possibly a week from today. If not, hopefully by the following Tuesday, certainly, we would be dealing with one of these chapters.
I should point out that we do not do them in any particular order. We leave that to the clerk, based on the availability of witnesses from the department. Generally speaking, it's not an issue with the Office of the Auditor General. Sometimes we have to change things around to accommodate schedules for the accounting officers from the department or agency.
Is someone prepared to make the motion that we deal with those four chapters, 1, 2, 3 and 5, as are listed on that page?
Mr. Kramp.