Dan Boyle (Green Party)

It ill behoves the Opposition to point fingers and name-call on an issue such as this. It is difficult enough to deal with the issue without having a common approach on it. I would go even further and say that what has been a departmental-led approach in all these issues to resort to the courts system to delay what were necessary social improvements in many of these areas has not been a good approach in terms of the way we should have been managing our country.

There is a job of work to be done by the Comptroller and Auditor General to examine the cost of judicial actions taken by Departments on behalf of the State in the past 20 years in regard to all these issues and the way those resources could have been better used to speed up advances in these areas.