Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know I laughed, and it was funny, but just to be clear, the reason that we are not 100 per cent sure it is this section is because there is no budget for the work that we are doing. We are doing it with staff who actually cross a number of divisions and sections, but this seems as good a section as any, given that a number of the staff who are helping with this are in this division.

Mr. Chair, I will admit that I did not anticipate that Health and Social Services would be the first department up when it comes to budget discussions. We haven't usually been the first department, so I did intend to send a letter to committee. We are actually in the process of drafting it. We were supposed to be done the plan by the end of March, and in discussion with some of our stakeholders and our advisory panel; what has been suggested to me is that it is more important that we get this plan right as opposed to right now. We have struggled to sort of get agreement on some of the initial information that we have been pulling together.

I think it is going along well. It's just slower than anticipated. We won't be done on March 31st. I was going to come to committee and ask if we could have a briefing, just to give everybody an update, but we anticipate it will probably take a couple more months, probably three to four more months to get to the point where all the stakeholders are satisfied with the project and the product, before I'm prepared to come and have the discussion with committee on where we are, and where we go next. My apologies. Thank you, Mr. Chair.