Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There have been discussions between the department's representative, Mr. Sutton, and the executive director of legal aid concerning this issue, because the board of legal aid has represented more than once that it is under-funded. Legal aid has been asked on many different occasions to put forth a submission that we can take forward to make a business case for why an increase is merited.
To put it bluntly, we advised the Legal Services Board that we cannot simply say that we need more money. You have to generate a case for why that is in terms of numbers of cases and so on. That has not been forthcoming.