Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We think there’s a significant opportunity. There’s money in the budget to look at the area of primary concern as has been identified by Members and is a primary concern in the communities, and that is in the area of the housing review. We know there have been opportunities identified by the Program Review Committee that will be within the purview of the 17th Assembly as
we look at things like inclusive schooling and pupil/teacher ratios where we know that there are opportunities there, but as some Member said, maybe the information wasn’t clear enough so a decision point couldn’t be made. We also know -- and I said this repeatedly in my remarks -- that there is going to be difficult choices and we are going to have to broach those and they will have to be addressed by the 17th Assembly as we have
tried to deal with the difficult ones here.
There is a very, very clear need and opportunity to look as we talk about the size of government. We talk about contractors and we also have the fact that we’ve got over 4,000 employees. We are one of the biggest employers in government. What does government do? What’s it supposed to do? What can it do? If we’re not going to do some things, what are those things? Those are all difficult political choices and one which after the debate is over, everyone wants to tend to leave to the next government to decide. Thank you.