Mr. Ferguson, your recommendation is clear: you want the main estimates and the supplementary estimates to change to cash accounting. You have also explained clearly that it is important to consider risk capital in relation to budgetary and non-budgetary measures.
To complete your testimony, if you have recommendations to make to the committee's analysts, I invite you to sent them to them so that we can migrate to cash accounting that reflects budgetary and non-budgetary items as well as non-capitalized items, as you have done.
The members opposite say they are transparent, but they did not want to acknowledge the fact that the last government left them a budget surplus. It is all very well to say that the old age pension age will be brought back down to 65 from 67, but we must not forget that there are costs associated with doing that.
How can we, as politicians or as parliamentarians, make sure that this aspect is properly accounted for to the public?