Thank you, Mr. Chair. As of October 31st the department had 42 vacant

positions to be staffed. I can provide an update on the status of those positions as of the last week and a half or so. Twenty of those have been filled, 18 are still vacant and are waiting to be staffed, one is an employee’s home position who is on a transfer assignment, two are legislative counsel positions of which the funding is part of devolution implementation and those will be sunsetting at the end of this year and then will be deactivated, one is a legal translator position which we are intending to inactivate. The funding for that originally was to be part of devolution, but the work plan changed in relation to that position. Of the 18 positions that are still vacant, eight are here in Yellowknife, one is in the Deh Cho, six are in the Beaufort-Delta and three are in the South Slave.