Thank you, Mr. Chair. With respect to the East 3 dental suite, the planning for this project for the East 3 School had started in 2004-2005. Unfortunately, at that point, or since that time and with the beginning of construction, numerous things had changed, basically the standards within the Health department for these dental therapy suites.

We have estimated the amount of money that would be required. We asked Public Works to do that in order to upgrade it, but we have some bigger questions as to whether or not this program fits well in the school at this point. Because of infection control and the amount of exchanges of air per hour that are required, we just aren’t convinced that it is a good fit with our schools. We have numerous schools that would be affected by this as well. This is going to be a larger conversation that has to happen between the Department of Health, Public Works and probably the regional health board in the

Beaufort-Delta. We are still waiting to have that meeting and discuss how that can move forward.

With regards to Junior Kindergarten, I would just like to let the Member know that for ‘15-16 and ‘16-17 the department has identified the need for upgrades, and it is based primarily on the schools that have utilizations where they would require upgrades. So if the utilization is over 85 percent, then we know that there would be more significant upgrades compared to if it is at 40 percent where we don’t see as much changing because the school can handle the population. But it is agreed that we will have to watch and see what is required in the future for the addition of this program. Thank you, Mr. Chair.