Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have covered a lot of areas there as well. I will try to address a couple of them where Mr. Delorey was perhaps seeking some comments back. On the daycare, the access of funding to it, we do seem to find pressures, specifically at the end of the year because the organizations start to run short of money and therefore get on to us. It is an area of concern that we have noted and are working on in the early childhood development program that we are developing.

In support staff for schools, again I understand what Mr. Delorey is saying. Our programs are geared to ensure that we increase the support staff in schools, both through the PTR and through the student needs funding.

The recruitment and retention of teachers is an important area. They are in demand. We seem to be having some success, however, with recruitment. There is some positive feedback from recruitment teams. Our concentration is to develop a northern workforce trained and educated in the North. These are the people who remain here in the North, Mr. Chairman.

On the SFA Program, we have a policy area and an administrative area. We keep making improvements in the administrative area. There have been some problems. I will readily admit that. Certainly in the fall we did hit a few problems around early January. That is when the intake takes place and it is a bottleneck. We are continuing to work on that. I think Members will no doubt see tremendous improvements in that as the year goes on.

With maximizing northern employment, we definitely want to concentrate on bringing our students back to the North, those students whose education we have paid for. Even those we have not paid for, we want to bring our students back and have them work in our systems. We as a government want to bring them into our government. We want to bring them into private industry in the North. It is a key area for us that we are working on.

That pertains to oil and gas training as well. We want to ensure that we get the jobs, that Northerners get the jobs. We understand we have to provide the training for that area. It is a big challenge. We all know that. It has come on to us very rapidly, certainly in the Beaufort Delta area and in the Sahtu area.

Seniors and the disabled and the extra cost they are facing, as I mentioned earlier, we are continuing to work on the whole seniors area to see what we can do there. Thank you.