Thank you, Madam Chair. We do have a health and human resource strategic planning unit with the Department of Health and Social Services and the exact things that the Member was talking about are the types of things we’re trying to do. The Member is correct; we do have a large number of positions that are or do require statutory appointments, and we would have to staff for those accordingly. But at the same time, we have been very supportive of training local people for local jobs. The resident care aide program that is delivered by the college, we have worked with them to have those delivered so that people can get jobs in the communities. We recently worked with them to deliver one here in Yellowknife that is going to be where a lot of people from Behchoko are trained for the long-term care facility there, and as I mentioned to Mr. Yakeleya, there will be one up in the Sahtu, and we’ll be working with the people in the Sahtu to have that training delivered so local people there, so they can have access to those jobs.

But we will continue to work with our communities and our regions to identify training opportunities for health care professionals that can be done without statutory appointments. We will be coming forward with a strategic human resource plan. I will be sharing that with committee and we’ll have an opportunity to discuss things that we can do better to employ people from the North in the North.

The second part of the question, which I forgot to answer, is the vacancy rate in the department for funded positions is about 18 percent. Just for the record, in the Deh Cho, there are 95 positions in the ’13-14 mains, and in that October 31st report there

was 11 positions identified to be staffed in the immediate future. Of those, five have been filled, three are in competition right now, and three are in the queue to go for competition once there is capacity within the department to move forward with HR to staff those positions.