Certainly governments want to do that, but the commitment was that this was going to be accountable to Parliament to ensure that we weren't just filling the place up with partisan appointments. If the government is committed to partisan appointments, then the secretariat certainly will remain in place under the PM, accountable only to the PM and not to the people of Parliament. That's different from the commitment that was made for a public appointments commission.
So I return to the question: if we ever see this independent public appointments commission that is actually a watchdog, that is accountable to Parliament, as this committee has asked for, will the money be transferred from this existing secretariat to that independent commission, or are we going to have to wait and go back to estimates?