Mr. Chairman, as far as providing information that I think may be helpful in your deliberation to come up with this decision, it seems that the Member raising the issue that I am raising a point of order on is implying or trying to say that the Minister could not have been the only one, or the Minister might have had any part in making this information public. The point that I was making is that - and I have stated in there that I am not saying that the Minister did any wrong-doing or anything like that - but it is the Minister who put this into the supplementary appropriation, and the headline on Friday said $500,000 for the pay out. That came from a public document which is supp 3.
If it is true, as he has been saying, that he knows his obligations under this contract and that he was not to do anything that would reveal it, for him to have put it into a supplementary appropriation is a ground for questioning his conduct. Secondly, he made the information available to the committee knowing that he was under a confidentiality situation. I do not understand why these Members feel that they have to correct what I said about the Minister.