Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we, as a government, have undertaken a number of initiatives now to identify and improve on our human resource systems and one of the areas of our Human Resource Service Centre approach is to consolidate information and have a clear set of criteria for every department to use. So we undergo on an annual basis, and on a monthly basis with some departments, an accounting for where they're spending their money. The Ministers already do that through the budget exercise we go through. In this case, we're capping the growth of government and each Minister was then given direction to find the 4.15 percent from within their budget and then, based on committee recommendations, some adjustments were made. So to actually come up with an

overall policy, it's something that the government has already considered and when the Ministers come forward for the reductions, that's one of the areas they use to identify positions they think they can get on with on an annual basis without having an impact on delivery. Thank you.