Just to answer the concern, as I read the legislation, subclause 15(1) states, “If the Committee is entitled to have access to information that is under the control of a department, the Committee may make a request to the appropriate Minister for that department that the information be provided to the Committee.”
Then if you go to subclause 15(3), it states, “After the appropriate Minister receives the request, he or she must provide or cause to be provided to the Committee, in a timely manner, the requested information to which it is entitled to have access.”