Health committee  Perhaps Kathy, as the expert in human resources, would have some comment on that.

Health committee  No, no.

Health committee  Yes. I'm a big worrier from way back, so it's not beyond my scope.

Health committee  We have thought about how to use video teleconferencing and other techniques to bring people together for decisions. A variety of measures and options could be brought into play. It's important to realize that in our day-to-day operations we're used to an extremely high level of service from every source.

Health committee  We are talking about a hypothetical situation here, but I can tell you that the top priority is to ensure that the House be able to continue sitting, as well as the committees. Dr. Bennett asked me how it would be possible to determine which committees should be given priority. However, it is not up to us to make such a decision.

Health committee  I will ask my colleague Kathryn, who is the chair of the main committee, to answer your question.

Health committee  I suppose we could put one in MPs' offices. The thing of it is that I don't want to get myself into a position where I'm basically...and I don't mean any disrespect by--

Health committee  With regard to the advice we're giving about sanitizing and washing hands and whatnot, those go out to every individual.

Health committee  Sure. We would be happy to do that. We weren't planning it on a grand scale, but we'd be happy to answer individual needs.

Health committee  Right now there are sanitizers throughout the precinct. There are no plans at the moment--

Health committee  We do provide you with water. Kathy reminds me that some members have purchased hand sanitizer, and there are hand sanitizer stands in the high-traffic areas. I would have thought that how the office itself is...you know, whether an MP thinks that they want hand sanitizer or not.

Health committee  We have provided training sessions for managers in terms of their answering questions from their staff. We would be happy to provide similar kinds of sessions for members, if they are interested in having a question-and-answer session. This is one of the reasons why we prepared the tool kit.

Health committee  Madam Chair, forgive me for interrupting. We could certainly make available our chief nurse-counsellor, who can talk to people and answer questions they may have relative--

Health committee  I'm sorry, I tried to go as fast as I could.

Health committee  That's quite a series of questions. First of all, let me say that with regard to the tool kit, people don't know about the tool kit because it went up on the Internet today. There will be a communiqué going out today that says this tool kit is available. As I mentioned earlier, the plan is something that has evolved.