Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair.
In general, the commission's responsibility is to oversee the integrity of the appointments in the public service, and so we have a robust system of oversight, which includes regular reporting. We have a robust audit function and every year we conduct in the range of 12 audits, and we continually use a risk-based approach so that we can intervene in departments if we see problems. I spoke earlier about our investigative function. If a problematic transaction comes to light, we have the authority to investigate those transactions and can take corrective measures up to and including revocation.
In general, we see those things as being relatively rare. Since the authority was delegated to departments in 2005, we have been working closely with them to gradually improve their management of the system, encouraging them to have robust monitoring in place because, in a delegated model in such a large, complex environment, we want to see departments themselves detecting and correcting problematic transactions in real time.