The only good news is that this is within the public service. The other part of it is that we are not growing the public service as a result. We've seen only a very small growth in the public service, so that's an important part of this picture.
I am concerned about this. With the division of responsibilities between the employer and the Public Service Commission, this is not entirely our problem. Part of it is with us, but not all of it. We have been talking to the public service union, or its management agency, and we are undertaking joint work to look at the problem.
I've also initiated a piece of work to identify the areas in the policies where you can see there's direction and guidance. Of course, the simple thing in this is that if every manager decided not to do it, it would stop, but it's not that simple.
We don't want to create a more rule-bound system. I'm not looking for more rules. That's the last place we go. We try everything before we go to more rules. But we definitely have to get a better understanding and move on this.