I just want to add one short observation, which is on the number of line items.
Certainly, if you look at international evidence, my impression is, and you could do a study of this if you wanted to, that the number of lines you appropriate—so not the estimates, but the appropriations—is at the very low end of the spectrum. No one here suggests that you should go all the way to the other extreme. The extreme I know is Turkey, which has more than 30,000 line items in the budget. Nobody wants that. But having, say, somewhere between 500 and 1,000, with some provisions for executive flexibility to move money within the limits, within the vote, during the financial year—the so-called virement or reallocation—without going back to Parliament, with, say, a 5% threshold or 10% threshold, does not really hinder the executive in any way. It just forces it to design meaningful programs.
This is something you should be entitled to as parliamentarians. The executive should put thought into its programs. I think that's a key message I would like leave you with.