Mr. Speaker, we had set the target, as the Member indicated, to cap it at 3 percent net of compensation requirements. We are going to bring it in at 2.

We all must recognize there are very many things out there that continue to drive our costs that we don’t control, but we also know, and we’ve already heard from some of the Members, in fact quite a few of the Members, about the things that we should add in addition to what we’ve already put into the budget as we struggle to contain the costs. I point out in the budget address the demands and levels of expectation of Northerners is very high because they are used to an extremely high quality of programs and the ability for government just to keep adding more programs. As I’ve indicated, if we’re going to keep adding them, we have to have the hard decision of what don’t we do if we’re going to continue to do this and stay within a 3 percent cap. We’re down to 2 percent. I can tell you 1 percent is going to be a significant exercise because just getting to 2 is difficult.