I'm going to ask a quick question on legacy claims. The chair of the IRB, Mario Dion, said:
The IRB had reallocated available internal funding to reduce the backlog of legacy cases from 32,000 to 6,500 since coming into force of the new refugee...system. In 2016–17, the Board’s ability to reallocate funding internally will be severely limited....
He went on to say:
As a result, commitments made by the Board in relation to refugee protection claims that are not subject to statutory time frames, such as the remaining 6,500 legacy claims, will have to be revisited unless additional temporary funding is made available.
I see nothing in the supplementary estimates to support legacy processing claims, and I don't see anything specific, with respect to the main estimates, about dealing with the specific backlog. There's a huge backlog. The minister knows about that as well.
How will this be dealt with, and will there be additional funding so people are not in limbo? Their lives are literally in limbo.
I'd like a quick answer if I may, because I have one other area I want to get into.