Madam Chair, I can speak to a couple of those issues.
The budget is actually relatively small. We ask for a certain amount of money, and then we are reimbursed by the registration fees. The costs are also shared with the legislative auditors. It's a joint meeting. Part of the meeting is held together and then each group goes off and does its business meeting. They share the costs sixty-forty. They're smaller, so they get 40%. It ends up that the actual dollar amount is not very large for this size of a conference. It's only held for approximately two and a half days. There's a registration fee, and of course people pay their own accommodations and whatnot.
In terms of who does the planning, the executive committee is made up of the chair of the public accounts committee of the host for the present year, the chair of the committee that hosted the previous year, and the chair of the committee that's hosting the following year. They do the planning, and the implementation is done by parliamentary staff and the Auditor General's office staff as well, because they are jointly involved with the planning.