Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The honourable Minister responsible for Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Ootes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is always a concern when we have young people with children, it creates a tremendous hardship. We do need to ensure that we take care of them. I am familiar with the case, at least my department tells me they are familiar with the situation and I will have them speak with Health and Social Services so that we can address this particular hardship, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The honourable Minister responsible for Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Ootes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not sure of the details, Mr. Lafferty, but if I can sit with you after I will get more details from you on this. I did have some and I believe it was last week that we had this situation. I asked my department to ensure they look into it. I will do so again, Mr. Speaker. We do have to work, because of the rule of the age of majority, the responsibility lies with Health and Social Services under the age of 19. As I say, it is of concern so we have to address it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Final supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The honourable Minister responsible for Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Ootes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will have to deal with Health and Social Services on this, Mr. Speaker, because of the process we normally use. I will keep Mr. Lafferty informed the moment I have some information on what the resolution to this is. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Deh Cho, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question today is for the Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development. I was at the Deh Cho First Nations leadership meeting yesterday and there was some discussion revolving around big game hunting licenses. There were some questions raised there and I wanted to put those on the floor today.

I wanted to ask the Minister if he could tell me who makes the decisions when the applications are made to the department for big game hunting licenses?

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. I will direct the question to the honourable Premier, Mr. Kakfwi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will take the question as notice. Thank you.

Thank you. The question has been taken as notice. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Yellowknife South, Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. The honourable Minister responsible for Finance, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, the answer is simple. I offered to brief AOC on some of the measures we are taking with regard to our fiscal situation. I am waiting for that meeting and I understand that meeting is tomorrow morning. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, with all due respect, we have been getting the same briefing for what seems like the last year; we have been talking about the kinds of things we should no longer be doing and our little deputy minister task force and these kinds of things, Mr. Speaker. I am not expecting that the Minister of Finance will have the problem solved, but I am wondering why it is taking so long to come clean with the public about what our real situation is. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. The honourable Minister responsible for Finance, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, I do not think I will have the problem solved either tomorrow. I think the problems we face on the fiscal side are huge, given the challenges we have, the priorities we have, the spending demands we have and the limited opportunities for revenues.

Mr. Speaker, I have been waiting for AOC, the Accountability and Oversight Committee. They have asked that I provide them with a briefing first and out of courtesy to the committee I have waited for the opportunity to brief them first. Thank you.