Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The government, the previous Legislature had to undergo some massive reductions in services and make some drastic cuts in the organization and the employees that were available to serve people in the communities. One of the positions that was done away with is the executive field officers and regional directors.

We are prepared to look at how we can reintroduce these in some capacity. We have offered to do that with existing resources in the Beaufort Delta because of the pending self-government agreement that would compel us to provide some coordination function to see that initiative supported. We are prepared to do that in the Beaufort Delta, we are prepared to argue and try to advance those in the upcoming budget exercise and see how far we get with that.

It is currently something we have considered. There are limited resources, but we believe there would be a demand in the Deh Cho, there would be a demand in the Sahtu, there would be a demand in the Tlicho area, the North Slave and we are prepared to give that serious consideration. Thank you.