Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was notified when I was elected that I had no position left with the government.

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Thank you very much. So it isn't covered in this business plan.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Are your proposed reductions for privatization in the business plan under vehicles and equipment?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, I raise concerns in this area of vehicles and equipment. Are there proposed privatization plans laid forward in your vehicles and equipment? I believe that is where garages would be laid out.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You're saying the money will be transferred to the department if they're affected by user-pay, at a reduced amount, Will you share that amount that it has been reduced by?

Mr. Chairman, seeing it was brought up on the user fees and stuff, that this was one of this department's initiatives of savings, will the department, as it enters into this area, be transferring the funds that were paid for those resources before? Would they be transferred to the other department, as well? For example, vehicles, a health board. Right now, the fuel supply cost is paid for by Public Works. I believe that's one of your user-pay areas that you'll be heading into.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Can I continue on with a different question?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the past, you say you have no statistics on if there were actual savings. We, as the 13th Assembly, are looking at reductions. Will this government be going back to the other operations that are out there to see if there is a net savings and if there isn't, make it so?

I was going to save this to later but since we're in the area of privatization ... One of the comments you made earlier in answering some of the other questions is that the process has been going on for a number of years in the privatization, especially in the area of garages. Does the department have any statistics that show that there's an actual savings when operations are privatized?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As stated earlier by my counterpart from Thebacha, the breakdown of reductions when it comes to regional centres is a concern, as well as in the area of privatization. I am concerned when it comes to the privatization idea. We've heard from many people, especially the private sector in the communities, how they can do the job better. But I've heard of cases where that isn't a fact. So I grow concerned when we discuss privatization. If it is a true savings, then I will be asking questions later on to the actual savings we are perceived to gain. Thank you.