Thank you. There is a bit of a confusion here too and I am not too clear on which way to direct my question. Mainly because there are two Ministers involved and it is difficult to determine which has the responsibilities, but can I ask Mr. Todd, the Minister of Finance, if he can clarify the situation. I believe there were two questions asked. One with regard to yesterday and the direction to question two. Mr. Todd.

Yes, thank you Mr. Speaker. I think it would be fair to say if matters of a fiscal nature would be referred to myself as the Finance Minister, matters of a self-government nature as it relates to the talks or process or whatever, would be addressed to Mr. Antoine. Maybe I just need to explain the process. We have followed the process. Budget was prepared. There was a request came in after the budget was prepared for an FMB submission to support the self-government negotiations that are under way that the Minister got forward and got FMB approval for. Period. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Final supplementary, Mr. Steen.

There is a confusion here, and perhaps we need to get, again, as long as there is that confusion, we still have to go by one question and three supplementaries rule till we clarify the confusion. I would like to ask the Premier if perhaps he might help the Members to clarify the confusion here. Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just on process, when a department feels it does need dollars or it has a request into the Financial Management Board this for process alone, Mr. Speaker, on paper A, for example, it will come to Cabinet for approval, then it goes to FMB for approval, then, once Cabinet and FMB approve that, then it goes to committee and then ends up in this House on a financial matter, but that is the process. It would be very unrealistic to take money requests to committees prior to it going through the proper process. So, that is just on process alone. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Mr. O'Brien.

The Minister of the NWT Housing Corporation, Mr. Arlooktoo.

Mr. Speaker, the amalgamation proposal as we presented it, is not going ahead and I made an announcement to that effect last week, Friday. We are, however, obligated in my mind to keep working on finding efficiencies, cost-saving measures in the department that we run. The amalgamation is not going ahead as we had proposed. There are no other departmental amalgamations planned, but, within the departments we will keep working on finding efficiencies and cost savings.

Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. O'Brien.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister tell this House exactly what revisions, and I use that word, that the Minister is looking at regarding these departments? Thank you.

Thank you. Again, I would like to remind the Members, the question is a bit hypothetical. Perhaps, can I ask the Member if he could rephrase his question?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think my question is fairly straightforward. Mr. Speaker, my question, Mr. Speaker, is, what changes, or what revisions, is the Minister presently looking at regarding these departments? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. Mr. Arlooktoo.

Mr. Speaker, one of the things with the original amalgamation proposal that we said we would do, is reduce the management level and the bureaucracy in the administration by combining them together to one. Because the amalgamation proposal was rejected by original MLAs, that part of the penny savings is lost. The fact is that pretty much all of the departments have been stripped of any fat and inefficiencies that we traditionally had, but it is still important and it is still our obligation to keep looking at the duplications, inefficiencies, et cetera. That is what we are going to keep doing, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. Oral questions. Again, just to remind the Members to be a bit clearer when you direct your questions. What I heard was vision, not revision. That is why I made the ruling. Mr. O'Brien.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister explain to the House what this new proposal is that his department is working on?

Mr. Arlooktoo.

Mr. Speaker, there is no new proposal that we are currently working on.

Oral questions. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. The responsibility would be to the Liquor Licensing Board which is Mr. Todd. I will redirect for the Member. Mr. Todd.

What I would like, Mr. Speaker, is some clarity from my honourable colleague. Is he referring to the legislative changes that the former government and this government have been working on? If he could just clarify that for me, thank you.