The Premier did make a commitment to the House during the last sitting of the Assembly to have a policy provided to the committees. Shortly after that this winter, I, as Minister of Public Works was directed by Cabinet to put together such a policy. The Department of Public Works has been working hard in putting one together. There is a draft policy that is ready for review by Cabinet and, still in its draft form, there is a plan to put this to the committees. So what is being asked for in the motion is being done already. The one thing I would like to clarify is that sole source contracts are governed by the government's contract regulations, so therefore there are no requirements, in our view, to deal with that. The majority of contracts are done under the public tender process so for the vast majority of contracts that the government does, more than 90 percent, there is no cause for concern.

There is the perception though, amongst a few of the MLAs and some of the business community that there is not enough accountability and transparency in the negotiated contracts area and we will look at that and we will give to MLAs the draft policy to review and give some input to. Thank you.