Thank you, Madam Chair. Over the course of the last year or so the issue of job vacancy has been talked about in the House. It’s been literally quizzed to death, you know, for the lack of a better use of the terminology and statistics. We have about 1,000 jobs that are vacant – I’m using whole numbers here – in which at any given time there’s a number of them that are being listed to fill.

So for basic math, let’s say 500 of those jobs perpetually are not being filled during the course of the year. Now, it might be high or it might be low, that’s not the point, at an average wage rate of $100,000. So if we have 500 jobs at any given time, rolling average for the course of the whole year where we appropriate and set aside, on average, $100,000 for each one of those jobs, that’s $50 million.

Can the department indicate to me, what happens to those so-called 400 or 500 jobs per year where they’re still left vacant, they’re unfilled and we’re hearing there’s a passive restraint of $10 million? I’m talking almost five times that amount of money, given the statistics that we have been given in the House. Can I get some rationalization as to are we talking about a bigger sum of money out there that we could be re-profiling and we’re not? Thank you.