Public Accounts committee  Absolutely. We are available to provide other workshops or follow up on advice. You're also welcome to reach out to us directly or through the clerk if there's any information that we can provide to help you. Part of what we do is provide support to oversight committees in terms of good practices.

Public Accounts committee  We can go directly to questions.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. I think I can get through the material and also leave some time for questions. We can, of course, come back at another time. We offer several workshops. This is a version of our orientation. We offer a more in-depth workshop on effective questioning and also issuing recommendations.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. As you see in slide 4, the public accounts committee is the committee responsible for overseeing that parliamentary decisions have been implemented in the way Parliament intended them to be. An effective PAC can have a huge impact on how the public sector is run, and they do this by ensuring that recommendations issued by the Auditor General are implemented.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to be here to speak with you this morning. As we were asked to do this as a workshop, I would like to kick this off with a round table and ask each of the committee members to summarize in one word what the first thing is that comes to your mind when you hear “public accounts committee”.

Public Accounts committee  Nobody said “boring”, so we're off to a great start. Several people said “accountability”, and I think the committee would be more appropriately named the “accountability committee”, since that is a lot of what you do. We are here today to support your understanding of how the committee works, because it is a very unique committee.