Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank them for that information. However, I did hear today in the Minister's statement that the return of Non-Insured Health Benefits might not be as eminent as initially stated because of some news coming back from Ottawa saying that they will pay up some of the money. My understanding is that there still is half of it on the table to be discussed. So hopefully we will not bite the lion too soon.

Again, in the other areas, because one of the things that has been of particular concern right through the previous Assembly that I sat in was medical travel and how that fluctuated for quite some time, between years even.

I am aware that there have been initiatives undertaken by health boards and a number of health boards have gotten together to try to lower their costs and deal with an RFP that was put out. However, to my understanding, there is still no agreement out there and that initiative has had to be pulled and is going out again.

Now you get calls from everybody talking about their side of the story, but it is a concern that we can be operating this late in a year and have something that is as important as medical travel sit out until, for one reason or another, this whole thing is redone to the expense of both department boards and operators out there. So that is an area of concern.

The other one is in recruitment and retention. We heard mentioned earlier under recruitment and retention that there would be boards that would go out and find other boards in different places. I am aware that Inuvik Regional Health and Social Services Board has tried to go under recruiting initiations. When they put their plans into the department, they were told to hold off that part of the recruitment and retention team needed to go with them and there were some other requirements there.

I am hoping that it is not just requirements you have to meet but in fact that there is a working together to try to reduce costs in that area. I am not sure if somebody goes from the department with every health board when they go on a recruiting drive, for that can get fairly expensive unless you are actually working together to benefit the North. As boards are, it can be fairly competitive when it comes to recruiting nurses and doctors at the present time.

Those are a number of concerns in general right now and I will wait to go into detail on some of the specific issues. Looking across the government, we talk about fuel increases, the power costs to government and so on are still going up. So hopefully with these reductions that have come out when it talks about, in fact we might see it go up again another $5 million if any Non-Insured Health Benefits come backs on the books, so we could be looking at $187 in that area or more, and some of these other costs.

This government is planning to put out some new fees that would impact air carriers out there when it comes to how they bill this government. So we are going to see it there again. So I do not think that we will see costs go down in this area. In fact, we might be seeing more. Hopefully that has been taken into account in this number and there may be some projection built in, at least minimum, for the time being. Thank you.