Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In light of the new information we have in front of us, it seems like the department knew all along that this was the road path they were going to take, but Members on this side of the House are basically shocked to see a million dollar special warrant pop up with no consultation and no attempt to put it into the planning cycle. We had a session here in July, in light of what was happening with regard to the power review, and now this comes forth for another $1 million supp for a special warrant.

I have a problem with that. Why is it that you continued on with a contract knowing that the money was not approved by this House? You should have made an attempt at that time to come back to this House in July, realizing that there was going to be additional work to the two contracts that you had in place with individuals. An extension of those contracts should have been brought forth to the House when we sat in July. I would like to know why that was not done.