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

I guess I am getting a little confused again, because as the chairman of the Infrastructure Committee, when Mr. Arlooktoo presented the privatization scheme with POL there was no one from RWED at our meetings, but the Premier had just earlier said that there were RWED employees. They have not appeared yet and I am still at a loss at to why the privatization is going on with POL and Mr. Kakfwi is involved, and why, when we are doing property management services, it does not seem like he is involved. As yet, the Minister of FMBS is doing those. My question to the Premier, my final supplementary to the Premier is, can he give a written policy on exactly what the privatization scheme is, and break it down into what is privatization and what is under individual Ministers? Because as Members, it is very difficult for us to ask questions when we do not know who to ask questions to, because it seems to be fuzzy at the moment. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On the privatization initiatives of this government, the Department of RWED is involved in all those initiatives, as well as the Department of Finance and the sponsoring department. In the privatization of petroleum products, for example, the majority of the work is done by Mr. Arlooktoo, the leg work. A lot of the advice and other work is done by RWED. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Mr. Krutko.

The Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Ng.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, no, we have not carried out the recommendations from that motion. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Mr. Ng.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am not in a position to proceed with providing core funding based on that recommendation of that committee motion to the Tl'oondih Healing Society, as a result of some of the reform initiatives that we are undergoing through our alcohol and drug programs, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Mr. Ng.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I have indicated in past discussions and past answers to the questions from the honourable Member on the particular issue of alcohol and drug funding, we are planning on putting out the dollars into the regions and to the community level if they so choose after it goes to the regions, to allow them to have the flexibility and the decision-making authority to place those alcohol and drug treatment dollars, Mr. Speaker. It would not be for the department or myself to dictate what facilities they would support, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

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

Mr. Ng.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I do plan on having staff speak to all treatment operators and any groups interested in delivery of alcohol and drug programming after some of the reform initiatives have gone through our budgetary process, Mr. Speaker, when they become enacted early in the new fiscal year. Thank you.

Thank you. Again, just to remind the Members. The Member for Mackenzie Delta started by making reference to a motion passed in the House and then went off the topic and discussed the Tl'oondih Healing Society as a supplementary. When you make your preamble on a motion, stick to the motion that you are making reference to. I will be observing the Members with regard to keeping order when they are asking a question that they stick to the questions that the preamble is referring to. Oral questions. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you. Deputy Premier.

Mr. Speaker, I am also aware that there is concern in the regions about whether we are, in fact, not amalgamating, as I had announced a couple of weeks ago. I would like to assure employees, and Members especially, that there is no other plan for amalgamation but we did say that we would look at other areas of duplication and overlap. Some of the areas that we are looking at, for example, are the three infrastructure departments which all have different maintenance systems, computer programs, et cetera, that help with maintenance schedules, inventory and whether getting one system for all three departments would save some money. We have annual consultations by departments to the communities which the departments do separately. I think there would be some cost savings in coordinating those. There are some other areas that we are looking at. The distribution of tender documents, for example, comes from three different sources. Those are the types of changes that we are looking at.