Mr. Jason Jacques (Chief Financial Officer and Senior Director, Costing and Budgetary Analysis, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer) at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

Thanks, Jean-Denis.

Looking at the coming fiscal year, the 2018-19 interim estimates identify a funding request of $2.9 million for our office, which is the initial proposed allocation out of a total budgetary request that you're going to be seeing in the main estimates of about $7.6 million for the coming fiscal year.

I would note that a significant amount of this funding relates to transition expenses that are non-recurring. These arise from the need to fit up new space to accommodate a growing staff; establishing new policies and agreements to govern the office, that are consistent with our new legislation; and paying for the implementation of a new enterprise resource planning system, which we hope is implemented more smoothly than Phoenix.