Government Operations committee  The intention wasn't to argue against the need to come back to Parliament for significant material changes in the cash requirements of programs. It was really more a case of the possibility of introducing a 10% allowance for transfers to be approved outside of the parliamentary p

Government Operations committee  That's of the Receiver General.

Government Operations committee  That's right. It's because the system we use to prepare the estimates is built on SAP, and I'm not sure.... They are built on Oracle. These are relatively new, and they are still evolving systems. We have, as I said, relatively new instances of these financial systems on our s

Government Operations committee  As Mr. Pagan said, the immediate lesson is that we need to give the Receiver General and CFMRS at least four to eight months—and probably closer to eight months—in lead time for them to be able to basically build enough workarounds to let their system accommodate a few extra depa

Government Operations committee  “Upper limit” would be the number of departments.

Government Operations committee  Right now we have something in the order of 200 expenditure-based votes in the estimates. If we were to go to the full 300 or so purpose-based votes, that would probably break the systems.

Government Operations committee  The CFMRS, the central financial management reporting system, is a system that the Receiver General uses to collect transactional information from all of the departments. From that, they build monthly trial balances and they build the public accounts at the end of the year. CFMR

Government Operations committee  It's PSPC. I couldn't tell you. Sorry.

Government Operations committee  Yes, vote 5 is available as an option. It was one of the options we talked about to the Department of Transport when we were setting the stage for this project. We didn't know what their capacity would be to be able to manage within the smaller vote structure they have, so yes, i

Government Operations committee  As Mr. Pagan explained earlier, most of the funding that's withheld—and in this particular case it's true—is for the portions of the program spending that will be flowed through other authorities. For example, employee benefits and pensions are paid out of a statutory authority,

Government Operations committee  No, it isn't. I'd like to back up quickly. I believe at the last appearance at this committee of the Parliamentary Budget Officer there was a comment on the lack of control and the lack of specificity in the language of vote 40.

Government Operations committee  Most of that $592 million are the amounts at the bottom of annex 1 that are associated with allocations to be determined, and the net adjustment on a 2018-19 estimates basis. The reason we've frozen them and shown them as withheld is that, in response to the Parliamentary Budget

Government Operations committee  The text report on allocations and planned central votes, that's the parallel report to the one we publish with every supplementary estimates, and the intention was to have the same kind of information published for everything that was approved between April 16 and when we table

Government Operations committee  The difference between the two tables is this. The sources and uses table, which is the detailed Excel table that goes item by item and shows items allocated, in this case proposed to be allocated, as well as the amounts withheld, that's the report that's intended to be reported

Government Operations committee  They're not served by the pay centre directly, no.