Yes. In the absence of public accounts, we don't know and you and the public don't know what the deficit was for the year that ended March 31.
However, you, as parliamentarians, are asked to approve hundreds of billions of dollars of spending to various departments and agencies while not knowing how each and every one of them spent the money that you collectively had approved for them the year before. You don't know how well they did last year, but you're asked to trust that the government will do as good a job as last year even though we don't know how they did this year—but please approve hundreds of billions of dollars of spending—and it makes it a bit more difficult to plan ahead for next year's if we don't know what the deficit was the year before.
Without knowing what happened in the recent past, how are we to forecast the near future?