Public Accounts Committee on April 24th, 2018

[The Vice-Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mendès), Liberal, Alexandra Mendes]

Thank you very much, Mr. McCauley. I was generous with the time. You can come and check it.

I think we are done with questions.

If I may, I will comment on IT and the technological transformation that you have to go through in your department. I hope—and this is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek kind of comment—that you've learned from the mistakes of all the other departments you've been auditing when they've gone through IT transformations, and that you take rather small bites, not large bites, in doing that, because we've learned that it's a very difficult process for many departments.

[Michael Ferguson]

That's a fair comment, and one that all departments need to learn. Our biggest system is our human resources system, and then the system that supports our audit working papers. Any time we touch large systems, yes, we will be very careful to try to avoid significant mistakes in their implementation.

[The Vice-Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mendès), Liberal, Alexandra Mendes]

Thank you all for coming this afternoon. It's been very instructive.

Thank you, committee, for another very good session.

Before we conclude, we will have to vote.

Committee members, shall we adopt vote 1 minus the amount of $17,256,881 that was already granted by the interim estimates 2018-19?

OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL

Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$69,027,524

(Vote 1 agreed to)

[The Chair]

Thank you very much.

[The Vice-Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mendès), Liberal, Alexandra Mendes]

Shall the chair report the main estimates to the House?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair]

Thank you very much.

[The Vice-Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mendès), Liberal, Alexandra Mendes]

The meeting is adjourned.