Mr. Speaker, as the Member is aware, the initiative to change over won't be occurring until April 1st. The procedure of lay-off notices is a procedure we followed. In a number of communities the shared responsibility already takes place between the GLO and the Department of Social Services. The department pays for a percentage of their salary, according to the work they do, which is half time.

Since the lay-off notices have been given out, there have been two communities that have come forward and suggested that the GLO had been doing significant work for Social Services, and we are concluding an agreement where Social Services will be paying for that half-time position at that time. That decision has been made already. We will be dealing with each of the other GLO positions once we've evaluated what work they're doing and what the requirements are. As we speak, these arrangements are being looked into and we are attempting to accommodate those needs. The initiative is to make sure that the departments which need those people to work are the departments that are paying those people to work.

So, Mr. Speaker, these initiatives are presently taking place. I know that in the Baffin there seems to be a slowness in trying to address where some of the GLOs are expending their work, but I fully intend to deal with that, Mr. Speaker.