Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do have a couple of comments here. First and foremost I would like to comment on the Wellness Court. It’s been a long time coming and I’m glad that we are getting there. When we reviewed business plans, Members expressed some concerns about the resources which may or may not be available for the Wellness Court. We had concerns about whether or not the services and the programs were going to be available to make the program succeed. I think there was going to be an update ready for us somewhere around this time, so I guess I would like to know from the Minister and from the staff if there is an update that they can give us on the Wellness Court. How is it proceeding? How are things going in terms of access to services and success in that area?

Also, when we discussed the department we talked a fair bit about IT systems, supporting the Justice department. I guess I would like to know which systems currently are needing replacement and/or upgrading and what the department is doing about it. Are they going to be dealt with in this budget year, or is it going to be over the next couple of years? I understand there’s more than one system that needs some help.

We talked about community justice systems when we reviewed the business plans and I want to stress that I think there needs to be, and I believe committee said as much, but we need to stress that there needs to be more emphasis and/or funding put into community justice committees. They have proven to be quite successful, I think the department would agree, but they don’t get, I don’t think, as much funding as they should. I think having a community justice committee in every community is the optimum. I don’t know if we do or not, I can’t remember. So I would appreciate being given the info on that. We need to give them funding in order for them to get training and to do the job that we want them to do, which is only going to make our communities better and safer.

Legal aid was an issue for us; it has been for the last several years. I’d like to know from the Minister, from the department, where we are at in terms of wait times for people to get service from a legal aid lawyer. It was an extremely long wait time, probably a wait list as well, but the wait time was quite long, not too bad in Yellowknife, but extremely long outside of the capital. I’d like to know where that wait time is right now. I hope it has gone down. Can I get an indication of how long clients have to wait to get a lawyer outside of the capital and the regional centres?

I think that’s it. Thanks, Mr. Chair.