Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, there is no real increase or decrease here; we're pretty much status quo. I think it's $2,000 down. You will notice that it's down from the 2015-16 actuals when it was $1,354,000. Those are actuals and we did have a salary overspend in those years that had to be accounted for; but the budget has been pretty much consistent for a number of years.

The operational review that the Member is talking about was conducted by some external consultants and a final report was provided to the department in December 2016. The recommendations for improvement to business practices and administrative procedures have been accepted and we are acting upon those. There were a number of other recommendations that may have some financial or legislative implications, and they are being reviewed by the department and figuring out how we can move forward on those.

We're hoping to post an executive summary of the report online shortly, but we wanted to be able to do that with some of our analysis of those recommendations as well, and I'll certainly be sharing that with committee before we go online. Thank you. Mr. Chair.