Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There are a number of areas I would like to go into with this department. The earlier discussions and questions going on versus the knowledge management strategy and the old term that use to be called informatics strategy. It is good to hear the department is looking at coordination. I recall during my term in the 13th Assembly that we raised those very issues when it came forward, that we needed to have some coordination here. We were told that it would definitely be something that would be considered and looked into. We were told we needed to do all this work. It is good to see that it has finally come through and surfaced.
But unfortunately, we have expended millions of dollars on separate systems. Each department has gone and hired their own informatics staff and their own programs. They have dedicated rooms in each of their buildings that are hardwired, as they call it, to these new computer systems that are up and running.
Hopefully, we will get something that will get these systems to talk to each other, not throw them out and get a whole new set of systems for millions of dollars once again.
But the areas I would like to concentrate on are very similar. It is one of the upgrades that happened. It is called the PeopleSoft area. The committee made a report on that system, that it was to take over two other systems. Can the Minister confirm that the PeopleSoft system was to take over the Government Human Resources System and Human Resources Information System? And they are both components of the FIS, I believe. Can that be confirmed? Thank you.