Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to ask -- I appreciate the questions my colleague was asking around sort of getting a better handle on reporting and where our assets are at. I remember at one point trying to ask for a lessons learned presentation at NAPEG on the Deh Cho Bridge and everybody being like oh my god, we can't talk about that. So I do hope there is a move towards, you know, more transparency because there isn't a way to learn if we don't actually look at what -- and that was -- sorry, that was way back in my earlier life, not this Assembly.
So my question here is that I have some concern, and this information could be given to me after the fact, about the level of expertise in the department these days. I am concerned about whether or not we have the adequate number of engineers and technical design and project managers that we really need for the execution of a lot of our projects. Particularly asset management is a struggle, people with building experience, etcetera. And I do recognize that the ADM himself is an engineer although I do know that your background -- or his background is more with governments versus project leads. So I just -- I do have some concerns there. And could the department or the Minister speak to where we're sitting at respect to the vacancies or the filling of those types of technical positions but also what's being done -- I'm also concerned about the retirement of some of our technical staff. So if there could be some information provided there, that would be great. Thank you.