Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In fact, I did have the opportunity to attend the workshop session over, I believe, it was a lunch hour, that was organized by the Member from Tu Nedhe. To that extent, I am familiar with Mr. Hartman. I am also somewhat aware of the issue of attention deficit disorder. It is one of the many special needs that we are trying to deal with in a constructive way as a government and, in fact, it is on the list along with FAS and FAE as I work with my colleague from the Department of Health and Social Services trying to pull together a more coordinated approach in dealing with those very critical issues. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, very clearly, as the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, with a budget of $170 million which everybody has pointed out quite eloquently is insufficient, I am definitely very interested and so are the officials of Education, Culture and Employment at looking at innovative ways to, in fact, see how we do business, how can we address issues working with communities and DEAs and schools to look at some of the issues that the Member has just touched on. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member has succinctly and quite, accurately outlined, I think, an approach that we are trying to take, that the social envelope committees Members with the Departments of Health and Social Services, Education, Housing, Justice and MACA are, in fact, at the table trying to come together with a work plan as we were directed to as well by the social programs committee. But yes, we recognize, along with the Member, that the $170 million that education has is not the only money that the government has in the social envelope. We spend 60 percent or so of the government's budget and there is a lot of room and a lot of potential to better integrate our efforts to better coordinate what we are doing to come up with, along with the communities and DEAs and health boards, ways to integrate and make sure we are as efficient and effective as possible. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member from Tu Nedhe raises a critical issue and that is, in fact, how important the family is and the child is. It is the centre and the starting point for the development of our programs. There is a need to work back from there, be it to preserve language or culture, come up with a way to improve the education system. That is where you learn your values. That is where you get your start in life. Yes, as Minister, I am very interested as are my colleagues, as I have indicated, to sit down and work as closely as we can with the communities. I agree that a lot of the common sense, hands-on suggestions are going to be found in the communities. Very clearly, communities will not have a standard response to every issue and that the Member's communities of Lutselk'e and Fort Resolution probably have their own unique perspective and suggestions in how to improve their situation. I would be happy to speak on behalf of my social envelope colleagues that, yes, we are interested and I hope to in the not too distant future get an opportunity to go down to the Member's communities to, in fact, talk to the DEA. Next week I am heading off to the Beaufort Delta, Holman Island, Sachs Harbour and Paulatuk and Tuktoyaktuk, but I am going to try to visit all of the communities. Yes, I look forward to the chance to sit down with the Member and his community to, in fact, touch on these issues. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions again are for the Minister of Finance. Mr. Speaker, since the Ordinary Members of this House are being vilified in the media for not rushing through the education budget, I think it is important for the benefit of the public that they understand the rationale of why the Ordinary Members took their time with this. To that end, could the Minister please inform the House why did the Assembly during the budget session in the middle...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That is good to get that clear. I am sure everybody understands that. Could the Minister of Finance please advise this House why we did break for one week in the middle of the budget session? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As you have pointed out, I cannot answer on behalf of the Assembly. I can say that it was the government's expectation that we would come back this week after concluding the budget to see whether or not Bill 15 might be coming forward from the standing committee for consideration. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the interest of a thorough consideration of the education budget, perhaps the Minister could explain to us why he took it so personally that the education budget had not been concluded on Friday to the point that he would comment on this on CJCD radio and, did he truly expect that education and the budget as a whole could have been concluded that day in the two hour time period before we had to recognize the clock? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.