Thank you, Mr. Bell. The honourable Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the issue is by my colleague in terms of the social envelope and the benefits of collaboration and cooperation is a concept that has not reached its full potential yet. We are still working on that. While we meet on issues on a regular basis, we have not, to my recollection, in almost two years sat down and had a formal social envelope Ministers' meeting. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think we are all trying not to chuckle here, but it is clear to all of us we've been into the hall Cabinet, their desks are so close together you could throw a net over the four of them, Mr. Speaker. When I see that the Department of Justice is reprofiling what it does at some of its facilities and I think it has to do this, I wonder if that reprofiling meets the test of government priorities or social envelope priorities or just the Department of Justice priorities. I'd like to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services if he had any involvement or discussion about the use of those facilities with the Department of Justice? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. The honourable Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I indicated, we do in fact meet on issues regularly and the issue of facility reprofiling is one that I've discussed with the Minister of Justice, also the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, I've also discussed it with the Minister of Finance and the deputies have met. It's been identified that this is not a departmental issue, it is a government-wide issue where we have facilities, as the Member so accurately pointed out, in different program areas in justice, in childcare. We have some facilities; the Housing Corporation has a mortgage that we are paying for that is underutilized. We haven't planned a function to undertake which our deputies have initiated and we want to take a thorough look, not only in Yellowknife, but in Inuvik, Fort Smith, Hay River and Deline where we have facilities where they aren't being used to their capacity and we recognize that as an issue.

While the social envelope Ministers haven't met on a thorough basis for broad strategic planning on this particular issue, there has been discussions and we are clearly trying to anticipate and do some proper planning on this issue. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Bell. The honourable Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will commit to making sure that before we leave office that this particular issue will be laid out in detail and the work done to date will be there for the incoming government to have at their disposal so that they can make the necessary and timely decisions. Thank you.

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