Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With compensation, should it not be based on time served? If you serve a year, you are compensated for a year. If you serve two years, you get compensated for two. If you serve six years, you get compensated for six. You don't just unilaterally work one year, you get 12 years built in.
The whole principle of accumulating time is that you serve time. In this case, I would like to know, you said one year served is one month, but after that you can go up to 12 months, then after that it is up to 24 months. What is the measuring stick that you use to ensure that as a government we have some rules in place that people are not automatically given a golden handshake after they serve a year and a half and then find out they have 24 months of payout? There has to be a measuring stick there, or something laid down in black and white that says it only applies under these circumstances and those circumstances are listed as items.
Is there anything that is written down that we can either table here or white out the names of those individuals and see exactly what it states in the policy or what it states in the contractual arrangements you have right now? Is there such a means test to ensure these things are accountable and we are ensuring that the public purse is being taken care of and we are not finding a mechanism where if people want to get a payout they can find some excuse to get fired and will make more money than they would have in one year of salary by being run off from this government?
The whole notion of that alone comes down to accountability. I would like to ask the Minister, do you have that policy and can we get a copy of it to see how it is spelt out in black and white?