Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With the transfer of corrections to Justice there was five positions that were in Social Services that went over to the Department of Justice with the corrections function. In addition, it was determined that there was an interim need for an additional five positions, the three shown here as the prorated amount for 1992-93.
The reason that the five additional were needed on an interim basis is that the Department of Social Services needed to keep a certain core of admin staff for the remaining programs it had to operate and was not able to transfer, at this point in time, all of the resources that were needed to administer the corrections program.
Our intention is that we are going through a functional review process of the Department of Social Services, in preparation for a further integration of social services programs. We hope, and plan, through that functional review, that we will be able to identify the organizational changes that will allow us to free up additional person years in the Department of Social Services, which could then be used to transfer to the Department of Justice, and replace these interim resources that we found necessary to put in.