Mr. Chairman, this is a partnership between the GNWT and the federal government in a way, thought there is not a formal contract. The federal government is providing upwards of $13.5 million for us to be able to put in those capital equipment, DI/PAC, Telespeech machines and electronic health records programming. GNWT is providing O and M funding for almost $7 million, so it is a $20 million project.

The Member’s question is how we measure these efficiencies. I think, from anything we know, that if we could have Telespeech stations in all of these schools and health centres that we are placing

them in, we hope to be able to use them so that our children and clients in these small communities could access service. Now is that going to save us money? I don’t know, but it certainly will enhance service and make services available to these people who need them and didn’t have them before.

For DI/PAC, I think it will do enormous good for people in our communities to be able to not have to travel somewhere to have their images and pictures looked at and be interpreted. Often, sometimes it is really hard to tell in health care funding, if you put in $10, are you going to get $10 in savings, because sometimes having more in there increases services. It may add more medical travel. It is really hard to do a straight correlation. But for the health and social services system, we know that our residents value every service we do. We have to constantly meet the challenges of streamlining and bringing efficiencies to the system so that we could keep up with the growth. But it will never be have we saved $100,000 here so we can use it for something else. That is hard to do. Thank you.