Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1994-95 requests authority for additional appropriations of $26,540,500. This supplementary appropriation consists of additional appropriation requests in the amount of $25,120,500 in operations and maintenance and $1.420 million in capital. Mr. Chairman, $16.956 million has been allocated to the social envelope, $7,362,500 has been allocated to the resource management envelope and $2.22 million has been allocated to the infrastructure envelope.

The effect of these supplementary appropriations were taken into account in the revised financial forecast 1994/95 that were contained in the 1995-96 budget.

Mr. Chairman, some of the highlights of this supplementary appropriation include:

- $3.92 million for the economic development agreement to meet the increased client demand for economic opportunities. This request will be offset by a recovery by the federal government in the amount of $2.744 million.

- $2.845 million for the student financial assistance program to meet additional requirements due to post-secondary enrolment increases;

- $2.414 million for health and hospital boards to meet increased operational requirement;

- $2.29 million for the social assistance program to meet additional requirements due to continued increases in case loads;

- $2.019 million for the child welfare program costs to meet additional requirements due to increases in the number of child welfare investigations as well as per diem increases for foster care and residential care;

- $1.8 million to fund increased Workers' Compensation Board benefit payments for renewable resource harvesters;

- $1.2 million to provide funding for the government's interest cost for temporary borrowing to meet cash needs;

- $1.032 million to provide funding to divisional boards of education for the staffing of an additional 16 teaching positions;

- $852,000 to provide for the GNWT share of additional costs related to RCMP contract cost increases;

- $852,000 to provide for increase costs for legal aid fees and payments related to court proceedings through the NWT;

- $501,000 to provide for increased operational requirements in the corrections program;

- $500,000 to provide funding for additional projects under the investing in people pilot initiative;

- $500,000 to provide for the GNWT share of the 1994-95 cost for the implementation of the Canada/NWT infrastructure agreement. This request will be financed through savings identified by departments in our 1994/95 capital projects.

Mr. Chairman, I am prepared to review the details of the supplementary funding requests and either answer Members' questions or refer them to the Minister responsible. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.