Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d like to thank the Member for his comments, and I won’t try to restate my comments that I made to Ms. Bisaro or Mr. Bromley, but I recognize the overlap that the Member is talking about.

The issue of this is not an Assembly budget, in a consensus government I would say that this is a collective process. If it wasn’t an Assembly budget and this was party politics, we would have walked in here today and this would be the first time you would be seeing the budget, and we would be having a discussion that would last probably a few days, and then we would vote. I mean, we work on this process basically year round, so we are definitely listening.

You commented that you were glad to see we are paying attention, yet we’ve got to think smarter. I want to assure the Member that we listen extremely closely to every Member, take copious notes, and we definitely give the Members’ comments the consideration they deserve. I just want to reassure that we are paying very close attention.

I won’t touch on his comment about his spewing hot air. I will let that one stand on its own merit. He needs no help from us to defend that statement.

The issue of the education and health issues are noted. I would point out with the Avens that we, in the not-too-distant past, concluded a fairly significant addition. At that time we had the foresight, as well, working with them, to give them a

fairly large piece of land to be able to do expansions. We now know that there is a growing demand for seniors’ services, which is one of the reasons why we are working in the Sahtu to put in a long-term care facility.

In the road to Detah, all of us can talk and point to no shortage of issues back to that we have far more needs than we have resources, that things are taking a long time and are going to continue to take time just because we have to make choices. I have sat here for going on my 19th year with Members

from the Sahtu talking about basic roads, and as they listen to the discussion around the territory about we would like better roads, we would like paving, we would like chipseal, and now the two MLAs I have been working with have raised that point repeatedly just to remind us that there are, in fact, some jurisdictions that don’t have any roads. We have to, as we make choices, keep those pressures in mind.

I thank the Member for his comments. We will collectively work to get through the review. At the end of the day, we will collectively vote on the budget of the 17th Legislative Assembly for 2014-

15. Thank you.