Mr. Chairman, the Member is correct when he talks about the senior and I will respond to Mr. Yakeleya’s concern about the seniors and how I feel we go to great lengths to make sure our seniors are well taken care of. We do run into some cases. We do hear a case here and there. I think for the most part within our seniors we have across the Northwest Territories, a lot of those are living in their own homes. I think we look after them quite well.

The Member mentioned the preventative maintenance program and talking about all the number of programs that a particular individual had access to over the years and to hear that there is still a furnace issue or there is still a maintenance problem in the unit. I would have to follow up on that and see why someone that would access every program would still be needing maintenance.

Having said that, there is still an opportunity for the preventative maintenance. It is up to $2,000 for minor maintenance work around seniors. Seniors are also able to qualify for care. If there was some work that needed to be done to their unit to make it a little more handicap friendly, it would fall under this particular program. We go to great lengths.

The one that the Member has said that a person wants to dispute the work that was done on their house, saying that they applied and got $15,000 approval and they got $7,000 work, I would have to follow up on that. That is going quite a ways back,

but I would think that there would have been a contract that was let for probably $15,000, so there is obviously a paper trail there somewhere and someone saying that the work wasn’t done right so I am not going to pay, again there is a dispute that the Member had mentioned.

I, too, would say we have technical people go in. They would inspect the work that was done by a contractor if a house was built. They would go in there. They would obviously have to sign it off before we give occupancy. I think there are a lot of cases and maybe there are some legitimate cases out there, but to say that the work wasn’t done properly unless they were a certified tradesperson, maybe it wasn’t done the way they had wanted or expected, but the bottom line it was still done according to the specs that we laid out to the contractor, so our technical people would have had to sign it off. When the clients are given the unit, I would assume that there is also an opportunity when they go through the unit with one of the programs people to have a look at the unit and make sure that everything was done according to specs.

As far as the appeal committee, I can assure the Member that it will be a pretty fairly independent committee. I think we are going to have one person from the NWT Housing Corporation acting as chair of the committee but they will have no voting privileges. It is going to be a fairly independent appeals mechanism committee. We are looking forward to seeing how that rolls out. For folks that question some of the decisions, some of the things that were made in their homeownership units, they obviously have a chance to go through this appeals committee and maybe this would be beneficial to -- and I think I may have spoken to committee about it -- give committee probably a quick update on how we expect this thing to work and how we expect this to roll out. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.