Thank you, Madam Chair. I thought I, too, would put my course of action on public record; I'll be voting against this motion. I feel that I was part of the group that advocated very strongly for the creation of a new Human Resources department. I personally felt that we should go so far as a public service, take it out of government, but the wisdom of the Assembly felt that it shouldn't and this is the course of action that it chose. I was very grateful that this government, the 15th Assembly, chose a new direction and, as far as I'm concerned, the transition of going from multi-autonomies, in other words, every department and corporation having their own human resource system and function and independently implementing policies as they saw fit, moving to this structure, I think we're putting better value to the system now. I had more concerns, to be quite honest, with human resources when they were in the department and I'm sorry to sort of put it that way but because of the way people implemented the policies on their own and as they interpreted it. The great function of this is we've worked to develop consistent policies and it requires growth in the transition and the fact is it was meant to be created as a seamless growth so we could create some stability -- sorry, a seamless transition, my apologies -- to create stability and I think that it's working in the task that we sought for. In the long run I, too, would like to see some efficiencies fall out of this and I think that it will take a couple more years before that happens.
Now the complaints that other people may have may be very valid and I wouldn't want to say that they aren't, but I underscore, once again, my constituency work has not been tied up with a lot of complaints under the human resource system and most certainly it's received very few calls and complaints since they've amalgamated. I don't say that without saying that there weren't some difficulties with the actual transition phase, but I do say that consistency of processing paper, people getting their records of employment, et cetera, all these processes have improved. So I support the money being left in, in order to, again, maintain stability and so we can move forward. I certainly believe that the streamlining of the system will happen over time and it will happen when it's ready. Thank you, Madam Chair.