Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, I am hoping that the Minister will try to give a little bit here because I think that is what is going to take to get us out of this challenging problem realizing that we are dealing with a budget which basically has major capital expenditures but also we have to realize that there are flexibilities in regards to re-profiling the dollars in regards to community health programs. We have some $69 million in that area. We have money for mental health addictions. We have dollars in regards to dealing with the NGOs in our communities and I think somebody touched on it earlier, but we have interagency committees in our communities that meet every month. We have mental health and addiction workers, we have social workers. There’s got to be a way somehow that they can sit down and formulate either through a committee structure or working in conjunction with each other.

You know we had a very interesting presentation from the Minister of Justice today of trying to find ways of dealing with the justice system and basically you’re preventing people to work out situations, especially when it comes to family matters and avoiding using the court time and the court processes, but committing to an intervention program that works with the Department of Justice. They’re doing that and I was glad for the presentation, but again, the department is doing it with their resources in house. They’re not asking for money outwards.

So it’s using the expertise. I know that in regard to the cost of having people fly back and forth, the technology is there today. In every health centre we have telemedicine, we have systems in regard to the Internet. We have boardrooms set up for teleconference through conference centres. These are already in place. You can avoid the cost of travel nowadays because of the technology that we’re using. So that cost savings that you’re talking about could be used to integrate these systems.

I’d just like to ask the Minister in regard to the resources that we’re expending in the budget, and again, I think the health boards are the key. The health boards are the ones that hold the resources, we block fund them, but if those dollars aren’t being expended where they’re supposed to be going, then we have to find a way to either redirect those funds so they go directly to the areas, such as the establishment of the child and family services boards in the different communities.

I have to follow up on Mr. Beaulieu’s point. We should be focusing on where we have the highest number of children in the system. Focus in those communities and try to find ways of preventing and bringing down those numbers in those communities with high numbers. If we do that, I think the savings we’re looking at will pay for this initiative tenfold.

So I’d like to ask the Minister, can you consider those alternatives and options realizing that we have to find a way around this. We can’t keep blaming each other. I think by doing nothing, we know what’s going to happen. We have to do something here. Thank you.