Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, Public Works did work with the client department. We worked with the designers and some of the scope of the work was cut back. There was a reduction in beds. You can possibly get that exact information as to how much the scope of the work was reduced from Justice. We did reduce the scope of the work quite a bit.
The first phase of the project was supposed to come in at $17 million. That was estimated to be $3.8 million over. Using those figures, we are estimating that phase two may have the same problem. There have been some reductions on the scope of the work.
The other thing we took into consideration was whether or not we could delay the project. As I said in the House earlier this week, that is not an option because we have to get off of the land that the twin pad arena is planned to be built on because that is where the existing facility is. The plan is to move those people into the new facility, allowing access to the twin pad arena. We are very limited as to where we can go with this. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.