Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister of MACA, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think the government, not just MACA, but FMBS has been reviewing the interim report from the non-tax-based special committee. We are looking at the request that they've made and the suggestions they've made for changes to the corporate capital planning process. I believe the government wants to respond to the committee when we've seen the final report from the committee. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister of MACA, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, Mr. Speaker, MACA will work with them. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister of MACA, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe MACA works with Public Works in working out an O and M cycle for maintenance in the buildings and renovations as the buildings get older. We do have some form of a schedule worked out with Public Works to identify with the community what a replacement of those buildings would be in relation to the age of the buildings. We are working with the five-year capital planning processes up to 20-year capital planning processes. However, concentrations are normally in the first five years because that's when the priority funding is identified. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister of MACA, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member is quite right. I don't believe we have ever had a design for a multi-purpose building. MACA is now starting to look at what this would include and how it could possibly build this type of building that would address more than one specific need. I believe the intent of the communities is to address housing, and office needs for the other departments, as well as some of the social needs of the communities such as day care centres. We are now looking at a design for that type of building. We don't have one at this time. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Hay River North, Mr. Delorey.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the negotiator Mr. Handley. Mr. Speaker, as I stated in my Member's statement, we are all aware of the new process for capital planning projects. There are a number of concerns from this side of the House, and it's been expressed on an ongoing basis, and I am glad to hear the Minister state that they are looking at that and they are going to give us some information as to what is to come. What process is in place for how the Ministers deal with the deputy ministers on what projects are given the go ahead and what projects have been dropped off? What process is taking place between Ministers and deputy ministers?

Thank you, Mr. Delorey. The honourable Minister responsible for the FMBS, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, under the corporate capital planning process, the process has been to rank projects according to their importance right across the Territories starting with protection of people, to protection of assets, to protection of environment, and our financial investment, and finally meeting program needs. We have used that process. As I said earlier, Mr. Speaker, we are now looking at changing that process in response to the suggestions, recommendations and comments that have been made by Members. So we are going through that now. For the next planning process, our intention is to come forward with a capital planning process that is somewhat different than the current corporate planning process we have. We may, for example, categorize projects and that's part of the recommendation that came from the committee on small communities. We are changing as we speak, trying to come up with a better way of handling capital projects and our infrastructure needs. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Delorey.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could the Minister tell me how individual Ministers monitor projects that are identified in their different departments on an ongoing basis? What process do they use to make sure that all projects are kept on the table, and what priorities are they given? How does the Minister do that?

Thank you, Mr. Delorey. The honourable Minister responsible for the FMB, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, under the current corporate capital planning process, our deputy ministers and their departments would identify the projects that they felt had to be done. There was a letter that went out from the Premier to all the community leaders notifying them which projects they were looking at and asking for input from them. Based on that, the departments would recommend to each Minister the business plan for that department. Each Minister would then bring that draft capital plan to Financial Management Board, and we would go through all the capital requests and figure out how much we could afford to fund and from there on, Mr. Speaker, it would go into the business planning process and eventually into the main estimates with input from the various committees. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Delorey.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister what happens in a situation where a particular Minister doesn't agree with the deputy ministers on priorities or projects that are involved in the communities. If a Minister doesn't agree with the planning that comes from the deputy ministers, what influence do they have in the process? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.