Mr. Chairman, the department has been working in a fairly focused way for the past six to nine months on a document that we refer to as a statement of core services. We have had a series of discussions with the boards around that area and we are within weeks of actually putting the document to bed, so to speak. What it speaks to are the range of services that we believe must be offered to residents whenever there is a need identified in the region. It starts in broad areas of screening and searching for disease or ailment. It talks to areas of developmental screening so that you can look to identify the needs of your young population and plan programming around that. It looks to identifying needs appeals that either are developmentally delayed or suffering from communicable or non-communicable disease. It speaks to areas of intervention or treatment in each broad age range from

preconception through infants, children, youth, young adults and seniors. It speaks to the broad range of social service programming in terms of counselling and family support and fostering. It speaks to obligations around provision of medically necessary support from either community health nurses or physicians. It covers the broad range of health and social service needs of the population. Thank you.