Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member is quite correct. This system really replaces a lot of stand-alone systems we previously had within the department. Some of those systems were not Y2K compliant and we needed to replace them. Others were in fairly poor shape and just not responding the way we needed it to.

We built this system to have a series of different components as outlined in the description. Essentially, we have a common database which is drawn on from those subsystems.

It does have the capacity to link to other departments. It is not linked extensively at this point, but it has been constructed so that could happen in the future. Thank you.