Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. As Chief Financial Officer I am the lead executive responsible for financial reporting and disclosure of the 2017-18 supplementary estimates (C) for the Department of Finance. With me today are officials to assist in providin

Finance committee  Okay. I will introduce Mr. Countryman.

Finance committee  I will let my colleagues answer about the alignment of the estimates in the budget. I apologize.

Finance committee  The comments I was giving were the net changes, but they should be aligned.

Finance committee  Yes, so maybe it's because of the order; we went from the highest to the lowest decrease and then increase, so the order may have been slightly different.

Finance committee  The “Supplementary Estimates (C)” document we're going to today is purely Department of Finance versus the entire public accounts.

Finance committee  Sorry.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  The real return interest is paid, I believe, annually, but I will confirm. It's paid annually so it is a cash saving and an expense saving. So the timing can be slightly different due to accruals, but it does match.

Finance committee  The payments from the Department of Finance to the Infrastructure Bank or are you talking about the cash flows out of the Infrastructure Bank?

Finance committee  It has been $0.4 million every year.

Finance committee  I can speak to that. The costs are set-up costs, because that's the stage they're in within their organization, so there will be permanent costs related to the organization in the future as they get into the future stages of the program. They are staffing up, but those staff will

Finance committee  No. These are staffing—

Finance committee  This is about getting their building and their location.

Finance committee  We did update the numbers in the statutories. They're not included as part of these interims today, but they were updated, based on the rules behind those transfer payments.