Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No, I don’t want to be here all day, but I was hoping you’d give us a bit of an indication of some changes upcoming.
The situation we’re in indicates that major change is called for. For a long time I’ve thought that the Department of Health and Social Services is too big. It’s a huge monster. It’s like a massive cargo ship in the ocean and it’s very difficult for it to make change.
I’d like to suggest to the Minister – this is something I’ve thought about for quite some time and it would be reverting to something we had a number of Assemblies ago – that social services be removed from the Department of Health and Social Services and set up as a stand-alone department or perhaps a department with one or two other small areas. I’d like to know if this is something the Minister would consider and bring to Cabinet for discussion.