Public Accounts committee  Thank you, sir. We have promised some documentation to the committee. We shall get that to you. As well, we had some recommendations from the committee on how we could improve the systems, especially on conflict of interest, and we will be looking at that, sir.

Public Accounts committee  We did go back and reprocess the 20%.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, sir, and we reviewed 11,930 applications; 182 applications have been reprocessed with changes to the participants' payments.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we do, sir, absolutely.

Public Accounts committee  It's on the lower ranks of the public service.

Public Accounts committee  No, actually the 150,000 was for the AgriInvest program.

Public Accounts committee  That was for CAIS. It depends on the year.

Public Accounts committee  No, sir. They also do the other programs as well.

Public Accounts committee  It is, and we have clearly—

Public Accounts committee  If it is pre-employment, if he or she fills out a form and we then hire that person—

Public Accounts committee  Sir, the code of ethics says in regard to post-employment practices that public servants will have to make sure they don't use the knowledge they gained working through the government in any way that would—

Public Accounts committee  It will be a conflict of interest if you end up processing the same form you filled out. There is a potential conflict of interest.

Public Accounts committee  No, sir.

Public Accounts committee  Sir, from what I understand and as the audit report says, the documents were not present to verify what happened, and there was a failure in the system. What I am working on is making sure that error doesn't occur again.

Public Accounts committee  No, sir. I take things very seriously, and we are working on it so that it doesn't happen again.