The registry is my prime tool for ensuring transparency of lobbying activities.
As I said, when my budget was cut in 2012, I took the 5% cut with the registry and put it into maintenance mode. This is not sustainable in the long term. I need to be investing in development of the registry.
As I mentioned in my opening remarks and as René was talking about as well in terms of finding efficiencies, we moved the registry to my colleagues, to a different infrastructure and a more modern software platform.
This will allow us to do essential maintenance in terms of doing a review of the source codes. What's needed now is to ensure that the technology that is in the registry can be supported. The source codes and so on, as I understand, that were in there... The same people are no longer supporting it. We need to update the system, and that's why this year, when I looked at the priorities we were talking about in December, money was specifically reallocated that we were going to be investing in the registry this year.