Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
We know that there has been a 1.5% salary increase and that the departments are not funded with new money. So you are at the same level as last year.
I am concerned about what this will do to the workload of the public servants, government workers, at all levels. We know that there have been retirements owing to the accumulated years of service. Public Works is a very big department. There has also been some natural attrition as people change jobs or seek employment elsewhere in the government or in the labour force.
How can you manage this situation or, at the very least, manage your staff without increasing the workload, knowing that you do not necessarily have the means to fill positions when people leave?