Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I assure the Member that myself and my department certainly take into consideration the family's dilemma and we are sorry that kind of situation happens to people, but we are doing everything we can to try to help. We cannot violate the Financial Administration Act knowingly. We just cannot do that as a government, so we have to live within that Act.
Now, with regard to the employees who were federal employees and who transferred over to the Government of the NWT and were eligible for VTA assistance, that is being looked at as I speak. I will tell you that the family has given our department some receipts, and where we have receipts we are certainly able to take those into account as we determine how much they would be eligible for.
In terms of statutory declarations, the department is working, as we speak, with those as well to try to verify that the claims by the family are true and reasonably accurate. We are looking for anything. It could be just itineraries, boarding passes, anything at all that would verify that their family actually did do some of the traveling that they are claiming.
So we are trying to be compassionate with it and I think the department is working hard to settle this one. Thank you.