Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I just want to make it clear for the record that I did not make any statement that meant the Premier mentioned, that my comments on appointments and what not. I did not make reference to that in my statement. That could have been done by someone else, but, for the record, I did not mention that. My question was more about the human resources, the Affirmative Action Policy and the Staff Retention Policy. So I want to make sure that that is on the record.
One of the other areas that I have raised with the Executive, it has been some time since we have had these positions. They were done away with in the 13th Assembly, the whole area of regional directors in the different regions, where they were the person that was the coordinator of the departments in the different regions.
Yet we are talking about regional capacity. We are talking about different regional self-government negotiations and developments that are taking place in our different regions. I am wondering, has the department considered the possibility or reinstating these positions, or something like that in the different regions? So that we can have someone in the regions that we can go directly to deal with issues that may be tri-partite in nature, where we are dealing with different departments or the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs and what not?
So has the department looked at reinstating that, considering the government has made reference to the Opening Address in the business plans, where it does talk about regional capacity building and what not. Has the department considered looking at that?