Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I do not have the legislation in front of me, so I am doing this from memory. I believe the Federal Accountability Act provided a basis in legislation for the establishment of internal audit functions in all our departments and agencies, so the requirement for internal audit now exists in federal legislation.
I believe the Federal Accountability Act also put in place the requirement that departments establish departmental audit committees with independent external members. I believe this has been a significant enhancement to improved public administration as well.
Those are two provisions of that legislation. As I'm sure the member is aware, it was quite a long and complex piece of legislation. But those are two things that I believe specifically deal with strengthening the audit function in government.