Mr. Evan Cullen:

Your question opens up a thesis of an answer, the way you have put it to us. One of the problems that I have with the way the Department proceeded is that despite all the recommendations within the report, the Department is still insisting on increasing the period for so-called section 32 examinations of the IAA. Under law, right now, section 32 of the 1993 Act demands that the Minister appoints a person to do a report on the safety and technical performance of the IAA and that has to be done every three years. The last report was done in 2019 and it had recommendations. Under current legislation it should be done again this year, but in the new legislation, they are stretching that to five years and it is unclear whether the baseline year is 2019 or 2022. We might not have another section 32 examination until 2027. How the Department could read the draft final report on Rescue 116 and still allow that to be in the Bill is beyond me. It is beyond any understanding. If anything, they should have been going the opposite way.