Thank you, Madam Chair. For the most part, we believe that the health and social services authorities have met their legislative requirements for reporting. We have a number of legislative reporting requirements for the system. The department is required to table an annual report, under the Medical Care Act, which has been done most years except there were two years missed in the last 10 years, 2008-09 and 2010-11. The department has a strategic plan which commits to annual reporting and we did table a report last fall in the Legislative Assembly which provides a progress report on the status of every measure in the strategic plan.

Health and social services authorities are required to report to the Minister on an annual basis, which they do. As well, they have a number of financial reporting requirements to the department, including quarterly variance reports. Our contribution agreements with the health and social services authorities do include a fair amount of financial detail, in order to start complying with the recommendations from the Auditor General that we move towards broader performance agreements. For this year’s contribution agreements in 2012-13, we have requested authorities to provide a significant amount of additional details specifically on issues like number of ER visits, numbers of no-shows and numbers of medical travel events, which have not previously been reported. Again, in response to the Auditor General recommendations, we have, through a request for proposals process, retained consultants who are working right now on developing a set of system-wide performance indicators that every authority will be required to report on. We expect to have that work done by this August. Thank you, Madam Chair.