For our committee, it's five members.
Is there anyone who dissents to this budget item going to either the liaison committee or the Board of Internal Economy for review?
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Thank you very much. Very good.
Over the next couple of weeks, the analysts will be emailing you. There was a draft copy that went out on outstanding reports. You might have seen it. I've just made some tweaks to it and cleaned up the language a bit, because it indicated that decisions were made by the last Parliament. You'll have that again to review.
Going forward, I'm trying to get a little feedback.
This is obviously an oversight committee. Our practice has been to meet generally when the House is sitting, but it is not uncommon for this committee to meet outside of that as well. I'm going to speak with the vice-chairs and consult with them over the next couple of weeks about priorities and what we want to look at.
We have a number of reports that were just tabled. The committee has always put the emphasis on the Auditor General's reports. The environment reports can be studied, but the environment committee will also pick up those reports. We are the only committee that will look at the Auditor General's reports. The others are not out of bounds, but our priority is generally the Auditor General's reports.
We have the four that she just tabled, but there are also a number that were tabled at the end of last year that we did not get a chance to review over the winter because Parliament was dissolved. I'll have discussions with Ms. Yip, Monsieur Lemire and Madam Kusie to see how we will advance.
Generally, I try to get input from the parties on study priorities and then come out with a work plan that encompasses them so that everyone has a bit of skin in the game and some interest about which reports they would like to study.
Go ahead, Ms. Yip.