Certainly consultations do provide a challenge to the department to respond to requests. Because we're a regulatory department, there are a number of requests that require consultation to determine cabinet confidences, and because the environment is a shared jurisdiction, we have a number of files that have to be sent to other departments because we're working cooperatively. Certainly during the 2008-09 period there would have been a number of files that were late owing to consultation requirements, but delays were also caused by capacity issues within our own office in processing the requests as quickly as possible.
