Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a couple of areas of detailed enquiry, but I will save them until we get to the appropriate part in the budget, Mr. Chairman. I did want to ask though of a reference the Minister made in his opening comments to continuing to invest in some software upgrades to our existing financial information system to keep it functional while a decision regarding its replacement is pending. We're going to spend almost $200,000 on these interim software upgrades, Mr. Chairman.

It's something that I know came before committee, I think in at least the last two years of the previous Assembly, that our financial information system was, like all technology, seeing its days come to an end. We have a huge reliance on this, it's a big part of our infrastructure and a serious decision, also a very expensive one. My question, Mr. Chairman, is at least to my recollection because this issue has been out there for I recall about two years now, we're still looking at options or still looking at making a decision regarding the replacement. What is taking so long? When and how are we going to get around to looking after this? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.