Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, Mr. Speaker, I do believe that we have lived up to our obligation, but the issue is that much of the responsibility for the delivery of these programs was devolved to health boards, along with a lot of the authority and the reporting and communications responsibilities. So the difficulty is that although we may be aware of some of the deficiencies, there is not always a clear means by which the department can require that accountability. That is why we are looking at accountability in governance structures in all those various things.

So in view of the concerns that were raised by constituents through things like the Minster's Forum on Health and Social Services and other means that we have of receiving information, it became of a magnitude and a seriousness that we felt we needed to do this system-wide review.

Having said that, I do not want to alarm the Members. We do believe that we are still meeting the spirit and intent of the responsibility that we have when the federal government transferred these responsibilities to us. Thank you.