It was agreed, — Further to the Order adopted by the House on Tuesday, December 3, 2013, regarding changes to committee memberships, the Committee’s routine motion regarding questionning of witnesses be replaced by the folllowing:
That the witnesses from any one organization shall be allowed five (5) to ten (10) minutes, at the discretion of the Chair, to make their opening statements; that, during the questioning of witnesses where only one (1) witness has been invited to appear before the Committee per panel, there shall be allocated seven (7) minutes for the first round of questioning and thereafter five (5) minutes shall be allocated to each questioner in the second round of questioning; that the order of questions for the first round of questioning be as follows: New Democratic Party, Conservative Party, Liberal Party, Conservative Party; that the order of questions for the second round of questioning be as follows: New Democratic Party, Conservative Party, New Democratic Party, Conservative Party; that, for subsequent rounds, the Committee repeat the pattern of the second round; that, during the questioning of witnesses where two (2) or more witnesses have been invited to appear before the Committee, there shall be five (5) minutes allocated to each questioner and that the order of questioning shall be as follows: that the order for the first round of questioning be: New Democratic Party, Conservative Party, Liberal Party, Conservative Party; that the order for the second round of questioning be: New Democratic Party, Conservative Party, New Democratic Party, Conservative Party; that, for subsequent rounds, the Committee repeat the pattern of the second round.