Thank you, Madam Chair. In addition to the obvious review of the Legal Aid Act, which is going to hopefully give us some new direction on how to provide these types of services, the department did actually increase the legal aid division in both 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 to a total of three lawyers. It took a bit longer to fill those positions than anybody would have liked to have had. Really, those lawyers are really only getting up to speed now, compared to what existed before when much of the backlog had occurred.

We’re optimistic with these three new lawyers, plus the new one that will hopefully come in by way of supps, that we will start to see some of the improvement that you’re talking about. Because you’re absolutely right; there’s a backlog and it’s inappropriate and it’s unfortunate for our residents. So between the three and the one new one, the three are now up to speed and we’re starting to see some results.