Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, in Mr. Nitah's comments he has indicated that there are significant concerns on this side of the House. Mr. Chairman, I think it would be accurate to say that there are significant concerns by all Members of this House because I think we have a very fundamental responsibility to ensure the quality and sustainability of our health and social services system in the North. So I think this is a solution that we need to approach together and that is why I am hoping that Members will take the opportunity to have very open and frank discussions with the review team. It is difficult to implement a plan that is under construction at this time. So we are working on getting that plan. We've taken proactive measures to identify the problems and the challenges and now we are being proactive in coming up with a plan to address those.

Mr. Chairman, Mr. Nitah has touched on the non-insured health benefit program. Certainly we recognize the importance of these services and delivery of this program to status Indian and Inuit constituents. We are quite comfortable right now that some of the problems that have caused that breakdown between the Government of the Northwest Territories and Health Canada, that these factors have been addressed in our most recent discussions. If it looked like we were not going to be able to retain responsibility for delivering these we, as I stated yesterday, would be putting in place a transition plan which would ensure that there would be no disruption or interruption in the services that are provided under this program. As I said, right now we are fairly confident that the concerns can be addressed.

As to some of the change in the policy that contributed to the deficits and the subsidizing of these services that we have referred to as reaching as high as $1 million per year, I am going to ask Mr. St. Germaine if he might elaborate on some of those things that were disallowed due to policy changes and some of the disagreements over funding some of our claims. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.