I think it's a huge problem. I know that Ms. Barrados, just coming from a presentation she gave, thinks it's a problem for all of us, because when you wait to hire people full time, you may wait a very long time.
We have a very specialized employee we've been waiting for. It's been six months since we made an offer of employment. Now, this is a particular question for us. It's a security clearance. You understand that a lot of our work needs security clearances, and after six months the person doesn't have a security clearance. That's apart from the time it took to go through the hiring process.
So we look at our mandate, what we have to do, and the services we're supposed to render, and we try to get them done. We're all concerned. But we're all competing with each other and making offers and kind of poaching each other's employees. It's a very difficult world. I could hire that person to whom we've made an offer after that person has passed the security clearance, and with two weeks' notice—this is how the rules work—the person can be off to another department. It may take me eight months to hire someone, but the person can leave in two weeks. It's not something I individually can change. So since I have the money, how do I get the work done according to the rules?