Thank you, Mr. Chairman, thank you to my honourable fans. I guess I should start off, Mr. Chairman, just by doing a little bit of a review here on the Minister and his staff. They have a very tough portfolio. The Minister with his abilities has been able to bring forward a balanced budget over two years as he insisted on at the beginning. I was one of those people who wanted to cut it to one, because I did not understand the depth of the problem at the time, and the two year program seemed to have worked. His department has come in with some good investment opportunities. The student employment program, the deficit reduction, balancing the budget, and also, the way that he has helped redistribute revenue to help rebase areas of shortfall, I think is something we should commend the Minister on.
I would like to begin my questioning today of the Minister and his department. The Transition Action Plan that was tabled by Mr. Todd a couple of weeks ago and that his department has had lots of time and has worked on, put a lot of energy into, indicates that there is a lack of office space, and that was identified. Has the Minister instructed the division staff to look into accessing houses that might be made available to facilitate the extra office space needed? Will he commit if he has not already done that, to look at it? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.