It was Joh that once said: "
Never hold an inquiry unless you first know the outcome." It was also his last (Fitzgerald) inquiry that got him.
I too noticed a few "controls and restrictions" in the Terms of Reference which may restrict the Committee's findings - particularly as the Minister's office appears to be members of the CASA Fan Club - however, the terms of reference are also broad enough to ensure they will consider and publish all reasonable submissions.
I am an advocate of a firm, strong, open and accountable aviation regulator. Fortunately, I've been around long enough to remember the last one - called DCA!
The concern is that if the Senate Committee accepted this gobble gook......
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Mr Byron—I anticipate we would start sending some of them from about the middle of this year. I do not see this delaying the overall program excessively. We have an action item to develop a plan to forward to the minister about when we plan to have them to the minister, and I assume that plan would be done in the next couple of months. I would be hopeful that it would not be long after early 2006 that most of the draft rules are delivered to the minister.
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on February 14, 2005, they will accept anything?
I
think Mr Byron was indicating that the draft CARs would be delivered to the Minister's office over two years ago?
Did Mr Byron intentionally mislead the Senate Committee?