Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s a bit of an issue. Communities like Trout Lake have a ramp for the disabled, but it’s like gravel so it’s quite a lot of work to get somebody up a gravel ramp. Those are issues to look at. As well, there is a building that we actually lease in Fort Simpson where stairs are the only way to get up to the second floor and that’s just not acceptable in this day and age. So those are the types of issues that I bring to the Minister’s attention. Will he conduct an assessment of all the buildings we do have there? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our information was total area including all health authorities and the department falls in the area of $6.7 million. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I think we already have in place a fairly good system of informing Members when we have to make changes in the budget process, as well as request more funding. As stated in this case, as we became aware of it and started looking at this, started to do some of the review in this area working with departments, we’ve come to the point where we know we will not have the room within FMBS for 2005-2006 fiscal year to absorb this type of spike in the budget itself. Yes, the Member is right; between areas where it is, for example in this case, part of the union...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, that Bill 20, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act, No. 2, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as the Member pointed out, within this sitting we just passed a bill that would allow the petroleum products division within Public Works and Services to buy futures, as we would call them I guess, price hedging on the futures market on the commodities we need for our communities. That does give us, I guess, more tools in our toolbox to be able to try and lessen the impact of increased costs for fuel in the communities served by the petroleum products division. There is some risk in that. For example, if we just use the previous year’s occurrence, the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Voytilla can provide that level of detail as the work around budget preparations when we had started to realize there was a shortfall. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank Members for their input in this. At this time, I also want to recognize joining me here at the table has been Mr. Voytilla and this will be the last defence of a monetary bill for the Members of this Assembly and for the Government of the Northwest Territories.

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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, in the area of the fuel prices in the NWT, the Member is correct; the cumulative impact of this supplementary appropriation in fuel prices is almost $4.3 million. The area where we talk about impact from 2003 is we haven’t given departments an ongoing increase, so what we have dealt with them in other ways is to give them a one-time offset or a partial offset to that, but not have adjusted budgets since 2003. We did a price comparison since the year 2003 to 2005-06 and now, measuring that impact, we have agreed that we will have budgets adjusted to match the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We will do that. Once we have this work done, we will be glad to meet with Members and provide the information and some plans of how we might be able to deal with some of these costs. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe it is four-year funding, but it was started in…The negotiations started in 2002-2003. So the projects identified were identified. It was a one-time pot, but spread over a number of years. So it doesn't keep on coming back, that total amount. The total amount was $4.7 million and was transferred over from the federal government, as the Minister of Health and Social Services stated. But it was a one-time fund that was spread over a number of projects. I believe this is the last piece of it, but the Minister of Health may have a little more detail on that...