Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I would like to thank the Minister as well. Does the Minister see an opportunity to communicate any of these directions and goals he has outlined here today, even on an interim basis, to members of the public service? Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. The honourable Minister responsible for the public service, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, we do table and make available to the public regular reports on various public service issues, so those certainly we would want to make sure our people in the government understand them, have access to them and so on. We also often put out pieces of information, often as payroll stuffers, that go to employees to explain to them any changes we are making of compensation services or levels, or whatever it may be.

Any suggestions Members have about how we can improve getting this information out to our employees I would appreciate hearing and certainly take it into consideration. We want a knowledgeable staff. We also want, Mr. Speaker, to make sure that people who are not in the public service also have access to information on how they might get into the public service and what it has to offer to them, so it goes beyond just our own employees. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, earlier in this session, I had asked questions to the Minister of Health and Social Services around the subject of FAS/FAE in the form of legislation. This time, I would like to know what his department does in the area of prevention and talking to the young people in the Northwest Territories who are in schools and, at some point in the future, could be looking at being parents. What do they do with the youth in the Northwest Territories? Thank you.

Thank you. The honourable Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, our focus tends to be mainly with practitioners through the health care system with social services. I know there is also work done with Education, Culture and Employment in terms of healthy choices and active living which includes, of course, not smoking or drinking. We have posters. We have very aggressive campaigns out there in terms of trying to make sure that pregnant mothers, teen mothers as well, do not drink during pregnancy.

We do a number of things. On this particular issue, we do not work in isolation. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister inform us if there is more than posters out there? How do these visits happen? How do they inform pregnant teens out there as to the potential hazards there? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there are a number of things that we are doing. There is work done through public health when teens are pregnant. We are also, through a lot of our training and with the family visitors, trying to identify families, young pregnant mothers at risk who could benefit from support to ensure that the child is born healthy. We are trying to take a fairly broad approach here dealing with this specific issue. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, posters, fridge magnets and diaper bags all sound good and it is hard to argue against "some action taking place," but we need some more specific and concrete examples of what the department is doing.

The Minister just talked about family visitors. I would like to know from him, it sounds like a good idea, but who is the family visitor? Is it set up and is it ready to go? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Family Visitor Program is part of the early childhood development initiative, and that is going to combine some of the early childhood money with the continuing care money. We are looking at expanding the skills of people doing home visits. We are going to incorporate a lot of the work done through the Hawaiian model, which brings together services at the community level, so you have the social workers, the family visitors, the public health people and the educators working as a unit to identify families at risk, mothers at risk with their unborn children and work with them to provide the support they need in a concrete and hands-on way, to ensure that fundamentally, first and foremost, that the child is born healthy. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, so a family visitor is now a new name for what we used to call a home care worker? Is that the case? Are we actually getting more people out there or are we just changing the name and making it sound good? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Two questions there. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my colleague and I tend to have coffee in the mornings to discuss issues. It is always good to have these issues reflected in our questions in the House. This issue of, will there be new resources? Will there be new people on the ground? In some cases, there will. We are also going to train existing workers, to give them added skills as they go out and work with families. What we want to do is link the early childhood money with what we are obtaining and accessing through the continuing care funding, so that this funding will in fact extend past the three-year life of the early childhood development program. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for North Slave, Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The honourable Minister responsible for the NWT Power Corporation, Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The practice and, I suppose, unwritten policy of the Power Corporation and all of these sites is to be open and accommodating to travellers who happen to come along. I do not know the circumstances of the individual that Mr. Lafferty met up with, but I will look into it. I assume he just ran into some cranky, old employee or unknowledgeable new employee who did not understand how we operate here. I assure Mr. Lafferty that we will look into it.

The only restriction that we have, as far as I am concerned, is on safety and security. The safety of travellers who come through and security for themselves and for equipment, but I do not think that was the case in this situation. Thank you.

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