Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in Ms. Lee's Member's statement, she hit all the points that are very accurate in the fact that we have a very heavy workload for the individuals in the payroll office. As the Premier stated earlier, as a government, we've decided to live within our means and tried to do what we can with what is available. Unfortunately, on this

side of the equation, we are not considered frontline workers, so when the government looks at reduction scenarios, it's that end of the boat that ends up taking a fair bit of the brunt of any reduction scenarios of past governments. We haven't added any new positions.

Over the past summer, unfortunately we had a number of months -- approximately four months -- where we were understaffed in that area and trying to complete the workload. We are back on track. It is still taking some time, as the Member noted, and we are continuing to work with the staff and trying to get back up to speed with that. I would like to point out that there are a total of 39 retroactive payments on the Justice side. We have 13 remaining and hopefully those will be concluded by mid-December.

On the health care side, there were 226 retroactive payments. Hopefully by the end of November, we will be concluded; there are about 12 left of those. So we have been doing our job, as slow as it has been - and we have to apologize for that - but we just don't have all the resources to put extra staff in place. Thank you.