Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the department will be taking the Member's comments under consideration. I would also like to comment on the fact that, as the Member pointed out, if the subsidy for fuel is only being applied within those communities that are on the department's service list, it is very limited compared to the Territory as a whole. The only people that are subsidized are the ones that are receiving and buying at those pumps.
Larger communities that are on the highway are not involved in the subsidy system, so they are not subsidizing the smaller communities. The smaller communities are all subsidizing each other. But the larger communities, who are not buying from the government pump, are, in fact, not involved at all. That is the idea the government is looking at.
If we are actually going to have a subsidy on fuel, then it should be directly recognized as that. But how that subsidy is applied would be up to the government to see that the funds are applied to the department where the subsidy is. For instance, if a subsidy is on one of the social envelope departments, the funding would go to the social envelope departments, rather than the way it is being done right now. Thank you.