Mr. Yake... Oh, Mr. Bromley, then Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I understand that the education authorities have been removed from the network and I’m wondering, first of all, have I got that right. Is there a cost associated with this? When is it going to happen? And, finally, is it difficult to do this? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Minister.

Mr. Chairman, no, the education institutions haven’t been removed from the service.

Yes, I realize they haven’t, but I understood that that was the plan. If that’s not the plan, I’m happy to learn that.

Mr. Chairman, we’ll have our TSC expert here speak on some of the more specific detail as to what we have done and what will be happening.

Just wait until the light comes on.

Thank you, Ms. Gault. Thank you, Mr. Minister. You just have to be directed through the chair, Ms. Gault. Ms. Gault.

Thank you, Ms. Gault. Anything further, Mr. Bromley?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the comments towards greater understanding here. Is there a cost that’s estimated to that budgeted for it and do we know is there a schedule yet for that? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Gault. Next the chair will recognize Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. One question to this part here. In terms of the funding, it seems that it’s going up almost every year. Is there some type of control in terms of the Technical Services Centre in terms of the expenditures? Is it going to level out in terms of the increases that we’re seeing every year in terms of this piece of work here?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Mr. Chairman, we’re looking at the change, and the change is as a result of a net change to the amortization expense of $94,000.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Yakeleya. Okay, thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Next I have Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just on the TSC area, I’ve always been a good supporter of the direction the TSC has been going. I think it made good sense when they were going the direction. One concern I’d like to highlight, perhaps it more of a myth as opposed to a fact, but I’m hearing a lot of concern about the size of the network sort of being pared down on employees. So, in other words, the usage, storage, those types of things are being pared back, if I can leave it as simple as that. Is there any truth to that, from this point of view? Are there any changes in our network that are reflecting usage for whether it’s employees who want to use the network or store things on the particular network? Of course, we are talking work-related issues. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Ms. Gault.

I appreciate that answer. I’m noticing it a little bit myself. People will start sending large attachments. I mean, we’re starting to see reports. I mean, there’s been discussion by this House. I think this House, the Assembly is trying to lead by example, where we keep more documents in electronic form rather than paper form. Things of that nature, and I see that challenge sort of coming

up. I’m just wondering how the TSC is responding to the fact that, you know, I can open up my e-mail any day of the week and there are several attachments of three, four or five megabytes each and, you know, you always have to aggressively stay on top of your e-mail. And it’s difficult, because e-mail are also an important asset to people like us in our job, not unlike any other person in our government system where they need to keep information and store it and some of it is very relevant that we need to go back to it. The management of this type of information is extremely critical. I mean, any project officer will tell you they’ll probably keep every e-mail they’ve ever had on a particular project. Any MLA in this room here will probably tell you that they need to keep every particular e-mail concerning certain constituents because they’ve been through difficult situations and whatnot, ones that require a high level of management that you want to make sure that every detail and every step has been followed or followed through for them on their behalf, and that type of information. My concern being is it getting smaller, that capacity? Is it coming down on us? The fact is, people are using this technology more and more. Is it keeping pace with the demands that are coming forward?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If I could hear some comments in that regard. Thank you.