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I can arrange for our officials to contact the clerks to find out the best way of doing that. Although you have the committee's support in principle for what you seek to achieve, it would be helpful if you were to withdraw amendment 16 at this stage.
Such people tend to be the ones who are most comfortable and familiar with dealing with politicians—they are perhaps the best people to introduce members to a company's operations.
Questions are not necessarily the best way to get information. There may be a political element to what members ask and everyone accepts that, but some questions could be better dealt with in another way.
We debated the issue at length in our organisation and we had a considerable number of meetings with the PSD. We decided that the best way in which to overcome the difficulty was to work as closely as possible with the PSD.
In general, we cope with the 110-day rule—that is about the best that I can say. There would be no major difficulty if we were adequately resourced, although there would be the odd, exceptional case.
Unless the cost was easily accommodated in the existing departmental budget, which, to the best of my knowledge, it is.I am not quite as much of a control freak as your point suggests.