If I may say so, Madam Chair, deputy ministers are responsible for managing the budgets, and the budgets are recorded to them through their ministers by Parliament as voted by Parliament. This is something we do on a regular basis. We manage those elements. I do not consider a freeze on operating budgets to be cutting and slashing. It is in fact an opportunity for us to look at whether we are managing effectively and efficiently within what I also mentioned are some of the highest operating budgets we have seen in almost a decade. So this is not a cutting and slashing exercise; it is a good management exercise.
