Thank you minister for being here with your officials whom we have already had the pleasure to meet in previous meetings. I will start with my short questions and will conclude with those that may require longer answers. You have raised several issues in your statement.
About accrual accounting, the Auditor General has said several times — and I will paraphrase — that the issue has already been looked at many times in considerable detail. You've just told us that we will get the answer when it is provided to the Public Accounts Committee, which may be understandable but I would like to know — and this is of interest not only to myself but to everyone here — when we can expect a decision from this government on the implementation of accrual accounting. Believe me, you are not the only one to have gone through a period of intensive training or briefing. I had the same feeling when I started learning about it. That is my first question.