Sure, thank you.
I'm happy to go into any of the details on good practices or how you might want to achieve those.
A key thing I want to leave with you when you're considering your work on the committee is that when you're going into a hearing, it's very important to have a shared purpose for that hearing, so you know as a committee—as a group—what you want to accomplish. Put emphasis on ensuring that your reports are unanimous. The public and departments that are audited are very used to having politicians disagree. When there is agreement in those reports, it gives a very clear message as to what the committee is hoping the departments or audited entities will accomplish.
The other key thing is follow-up. This is a weakness we see in many committees. You have an excellent follow-up process in place. You can lean on your support staff and on the work of the audit office to know what needs to be followed up on. Committees before you have done a lot of work. You know and the public knows that there are reports outstanding that departments owe to your committee. You can follow up on those, ensure that progress is being made and then collaborate.
That may sound like it's more difficult to do than it first seems, but when you really focus on the fact that you're looking at the implementation of policy and not the merits of policy, it becomes much easier to collaborate as a committee.
I can leave it there and open it up to questions.