Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Bartle, and Ms. Russell, whom we've met before around various discussions and tables.
Actually, this is very interesting. We all know that we've not done gender budgeting properly in this country. We know that the tax expenditure side of things, which has been a bee in my bonnet for a very long time, is actually quite often to women's disadvantage, certainly the way they're applied. We don't actually do a proper analysis of any of this stuff in the long term.
To Mr. Bartle, you had mentioned a number of analytical tools, and you mentioned to us a couple of things about the expenditures. I'm wondering if you could you be a little more specific about the kinds of tools and the kind of expertise that would be required to implement a proper gender budgeting process, and about whether or not the whole of the budget needs to be done or we could start doing it sector by sector to some degree.
My concern with sector by sector, of course, is that it may never get to the full budget. It may take a few years. But it's better than doing nothing.
So I would like you to tell us a bit more about the kinds of tools that are required. You mentioned some of them, but I'm wondering whether there's a bit more that you could share with us just to understand the needs.