Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the statement made by the Minister in regards to the savings, we are talking about implementing amalgamation of these three departments and we are talking about in the first year not seeing any savings because it will cost us more because of pay outs and stuff like that. We are talking about 1998-99 fiscal year and then we are talking about division. Basically we are talking a two year time frame to try to implement something and the only time we will see the savings is after the second. Yet you say the intention of this is to save money on behalf of the government and put it into programs and services such as the seniors' fuel subsidy, alcohol and drug programs and things like that. That is where we see the hardest hit areas in regards to the budget and the most outcry from the communities. Yet we amalgamated RWED with that intention. That was supposed to save us a whole ton of money too, and yet we do not see it. Unless someone is not exactly spelling out what the figures are stating in regards to the number of lay-offs and where they are going to be, I think from what we have seen, especially in the smaller communities, that we cannot afford to take any more lay-offs. Exactly where those lay-offs are going to be, is across the board which will affect all communities.

The delivery of the services, especially in the area of the Housing Corporation, and also in regards to transportation, which are infrastructure which our people can relate to in the smaller communities because those are things they can save. But in relation to public works, a lot of these individuals that we do have in our communities that work for public works are a key component of those communities because they are the ones that know the infrastructure of those communities such as the water treatment plants, the school, the hospital, the infrastructure that is there. For us to not know exactly where those lay-offs are going to take place and after going through the situation with RWED, I do not think we can afford to see any more cuts. Thank you.