Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions as well are to the Minister of Human Resources and in my 20 years on government as a manager and superintendent, acting regional director, even as a carpenter's apprentice with the union, and in this House here, all the Assemblies, I have been very interested in human resources. In fact, I know some of the Members here from the 13th Assembly, we did not speak in favour of the disbanding of the Personnel department of the day and it's taken nine years for the government to come back to realize that they do need a centralized human resource function which is so critical to government. I know as Minister of Health and Social Services and ENR I thought we got very good service.
My question to the Minister is just to give a sense of scale here. Can the Minister indicate firstly how many employees do we have and could he give us a ballpark figure of how many transactions in any given week or month that we would probably do or deal with with the various employees in the various forms?