Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chairman, I just really have one area of concern and that area of concern is very similar to everyone else, and that's really the logistics of how we would handle a Department of Infrastructure in this type of setting. I wonder how we are able to consider a department which we have continued to discuss in the business-planning process which would then come to the Assembly in February.

So whether we agree with it then or disagree with it, if we consider the capital in this format, then we are essentially agreeing with the Infrastructure Department existing, which we haven't done at this point. We have reviewed the business plans and we have made our concerns largely to do with the fact that there's substantial reductions in the amalgamation of these two departments that we need to look at a lot closer. So I'd ask the government to maybe leave the two departments for the purpose of doing our consideration of the capital on both Public Works and DOT separately in case it is not realized that a Department of Infrastructure becomes a department on April 1, 2017.

So I feel that that would be easier to deal with and maybe more in line with what this group is thinking. We're now feeling like the decision is made regardless of what we said during the business planning process for this amalgamation, and I don't think it would be difficult to reflect this capital estimate on this tabled document as two separate departments, and then eventually if the Department of Infrastructure is established through the regular approved processes of establishing a department, then we then combine the two departments at that point.

It's become a point where we are running into a department that we don't really know how to move forward with as a committee. So I wanted to say that here for the Minister and the staff to hear and let the Minister and his staff know that we do have concerns about the process more than anything, and we need to have full consideration of these departments separately in order for us to establish a capital plan for each department separately. Thank you.