Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll keep my comments to one area and it relates to the transition that we're undertaking for our government-wide human resources to consolidate this function within FMBS. I think there are quite a number of similarities to the service centre concept that Ms. Lee was talking about with technology that I think has had a reasonably good role. Like Ms. Lee, I must share some complications with my own computer skills, but the service that I've been getting from the TSC has been really good.

What I wanted to look at here was the creation of this consolidation. It is a fairly significant move. It is one that is, over time, going to affect each government department. A number of staff are going to be involved in this, but I'm looking forward, Madam Chair, to government-wide service and implementation of our human resource policies.

As an MLA, on occasion I do hear about situations that constituents find themselves in. Very often what it relates to, Madam Chair, is inconsistencies from one department to another or perhaps one area of policy interpretation to another. My understanding is that it goes back to moves that were made several years ago by this government to disseminate HR functions. So our policies were then distributed to various departments and deputy ministers and ministries and boards, but over the course of time, Madam Chair, as policies are interpreted differently by different people in different situations, we have really encountered sort of more and more inconsistency and frustration on the part of some employees and some potential employees.

So with that, I wanted to indicate that I'm anticipating or expecting that we will see improvement in our overall HR practices here and, like I said, I'd ask the Minister if he could give committee a status report and an outline in general terms, Madam Chair, of the next steps involved in human resources consolidation. Thank you.