Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am wounded by the Member's initial comments about how quickly I've forgotten where I've spent much of my time.

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Mr. Speaker, I'd like to assure the Member that based on my interest and concern on this and many conversations I've had with the Member and with the department, that we are taking the steps to ensure that we look at how the office is functioning, if is it adequately resourced. In fact we have senior staff up there right now working on that and we are also working on the information systems that vital statistics needs to do their job effectively. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.