Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to the minister and to his colleagues for attending today to answer these questions on supplementary estimates (B).
I'll start with talking a bit about the public service, if that's okay. I know that it's been a bit of a roller-coaster ride with public servants between the COVID pandemic to now in terms of working from home and then being asked to come back to work and then between full-time, part-time and half-time.
My question is specifically about the early retirement options that public servants have been asking about and what that might mean for job security across the public service. I'd like you to maybe speak about how the government is approaching this in a way that protects our workforce and reassures employees of the future as well, and ensures that any workforce adjustments minimize involuntary departures as well. We want to protect the public service.