Thank you very much for that.
Minister, you know I have a personal interest in the realignment process, so I'd like to ask you something about it.
According to the report by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, page one, these estimates cover 19 of the 94 spending measures in Budget 2017. The report states as follows:
The Government has proposed improving the alignment of the budget and the main estimates by delaying [the tabling of ] the main estimates until May 1 and revising internal processes. Given the limited number of Budget 2017 measures that are included in these supplementary estimates, this proposal may not result in [a] meaningful improvement in the alignment of the budget and the main estimates.
When will the other 75 spending measures announced in Budget 2017 appear in an estimates document? Since only 20% of the measures announced in Budget 2017 are included in supplementary estimates (A), how would delaying the tabling of the main estimates have improved the alignment of the two documents this year?