Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, under the Health Information Act, the Department of Health and Social Services and its authorities are required to complete privacy impact assessments before implementing a change to or implementing new information systems or communications technology that involved collection, use or disclosure of personal health information.

To be clear, Mr. Speaker, there have been no changes to the Department of Health and Social Services Authorities Health Information Systems as a result of system transformation. These systems were in place and utilized by the authorities prior to amalgamation. So under the legislation we are not required to do a privacy impact assessment on the transformation.

Having said that, Mr. Speaker, we do take privacy very seriously in the Department of Health and Social Services and our authorities. We are currently working towards the implementation of one shared Risk Assessment Management Reporting Information System as well as one shared Clinical Information System, and as per the legislation and our due diligence we are doing PIAs on both of those systems that we are implementing. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.