Thank you for the question.
I will begin by letting the committee know that
the secretariat has a responsibility. One of its mandates is to provide policy and secretariat support to the priorities and Planning Sub-Committee on Government Administration. Over the last seven months or so, the committee has met approximately 13 times. The result of those deliberations was seen in the recent budget announcement wherein certain decisions were reflected in terms of efficiencies and cost savings.
I'll flag a few of them that were as a result of the deliberations of the committee, and in particular the reduction in travel costs across government, the increased use of video conferencing to enable that reduction to occur, and decisions around the centralized procurement of end-user devices.
There was also a targeted review—