Speaker, I have a concern and I have tried to find the committee report on the Bill. I have been unable to find it. The only report that was, in fact, placed in the Announcements, Tablings, and Committee Reports, ATCs, was a very brief report in the ATCs on Thursday, 27 February, which refers to the tagging of the Property Valuation Bill.
However, that does not conform to the Rules. Rule 252 says: A committee to which a Bill is referred to must deal with the Bill in accordance with Rule 249. The committee must then table a report and that report must state the joint tagging mechanism, JTM, classification, which this one states. Then it must state whether it recommends approval or rejection of the Bill, etc. It must also specify each amendment if it's an amending Bill, other than a redraft of a Bill, etc.
Now, from what I could find, we have amendments, but there is no report detailing what type of amendments those are and whether they were accepted or rejected.
So, clearly, we are going to move to a Second Reading debate without a proper report in compliance with Rule 251(3). I have a very serious concern about that, because in the past we have deferred a similar discussion on the Protection of State Information Bill as there was no report compiled and submitted by the committee. Thank you.