Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think you will find that with any payroll system that is allowing live entry into the payroll records you need to shut down data entry for a period of time for cycling the pay run. The old systems of batch systems you would do up, do your entry and then do a summary of everything you put in. Then you roll that batch of data into the system. So it was quite a cumbersome and duplicative process when it came to entering data. Both systems could be up all the time, but you still had to shut them down for particular pay cycles.

PeopleSoft is different. PeopleSoft is a live system. The people who are data entering into it are data entering into actual live payroll records. So, when you are going to run a pay run, you have to cut off their access to the system for that period of time because you cannot have people changing the database and changing the information in people's pay files as you are generating the pay run and cutting the cheques. So for a period of time, you have to deny access to the system so that you do not have people changing data as it is being used to generate paycheques.

Right now, as the Minister pointed out, for about two, possibly in some cases three days in a cheque cycle, the system is shut down and not available to other users. We hope that over time, that will be cut down dramatically, so that it will be unavailable to users for only a day or less. But we are still in the process of refining the implementation, working out the remaining bugs and getting the system performing the way we want it to perform. That is not unusual for implementation of a system of this magnitude.