Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a couple of comments which brings me to a couple of questions. Since the Premier has indicated that this particular department would be devolved into a secretariat effective April 1st -- you have noticed over the past couple of years, certainly I wouldn't state a downsizing of the department but a reallocation of the department -- many of the responsibilities have been granted to FMBS for the purposes of tying it in with negotiations and recognizing the cost factors of the public service, which I agree with.

However, at the same time, the Personnel departments is one of the important department in bringing in people into this system. I am somewhat concerned with the fact that the secretariat being set up...Are you looking at setting up something like a public service commission? It seems over the past couple of years there has been human resource positions allocated to each department.

The concern that I have about that with our affirmative action program in place is how is this going to be monitored through a secretariat? With regard to the human resources positions allocated to each department, how are the hiring procedures going to be followed? Because as soon as you give the responsibility to the departments, you are going to allow for the process to possibly be implemented unfairly.

We all know government now has a bad reputation many times, in certain departments, of hiring people who they know and not for what they know. What I would like to know is how are you going to avoid this. Those are some of my comments, Mr. Chairman. Thanks.