Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a couple of comments. I’ll start with the Minister’s statement that we’ve changed how we plan and acquire public infrastructure and made changes to the capital planning process. I think I said last year, and possibly the year before, that I’m really pleased that we’ve made these changes. I look forward to hearing from the Minister in this second year of the new capital planning process whether or not he thinks that it was a beneficial move. I know that was his opinion last year, but we had a hugely busy

construction season in 2010-2011 so I’d be interested to know whether or not he’s as positive about these new changes as he was last year.

I was really pleased to hear about the settlement maintainer positions. I think this is absolutely the way we need to go and I would hope that this would be a path that we’re going to continue on and that we’re going to try to get settlement maintainer positions in more than just the six that we’ve already targeted. In looking after buildings, whether they be government buildings or otherwise, it certainly is a huge advantage to have a maintainer in the community and not have to bring somebody in.

I was really pleased to see the numbers about the reduction in our deferred maintenance costs. We’ve gone down a great deal and I’ve told the Minister before, and I will say it again, but I think attacking our deferred maintenance deficit is absolutely the way that we need to go. I think from this I see that it’s paying off.

We were advised last year, and I guess that it has been accomplished in the 2010-2011 budget year, that we’re going to consolidate payment and tracking for utilities. I guess I would like to know from the Minister whether or not it seems to be working. I know it’s really on, but I imagine there’s a bit of a sense of whether or not it’s going to be a beneficial change.

I’m pleased to see that we are continuing to invest in energy conservation and efficiency projects. Again, I think that’s the way we should be going. I was particularly pleased to see that it looks as though, because of the energy efficiencies that we’re putting in place, the Capital Asset Retrofit Program is going to be partially self-funded, if not this next budget year then the one afterwards. That to me is just another indication that we’re on the right path.

I am concerned about the bandwidth and the IT requirements that we have within the government. Two departments particularly are increasing their requirements probably daily. Education and Health and Social Services are two huge users of IT and are adding more all the time. I’m interested in hearing, when we get to the page, how the department is handling the increased demand on our IT services and particularly on our bandwidth.

As usual, I think PWS does a good job and I’m pleased with what I heard from the Minister and look forward to the detail.