Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Since the agreement has been signed, the principal payments have been made. We have not had any problems in that area. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank the Member for those comments. As well, I am aware that committees in previous assemblies were raising issues around that, how we would set up our functions and how much it would cost if we continued to operate with each department doing their own thing. So it is good to know that we have the support to continue down this path.

In the area of the human resources services centre, in fact, there has been some work ongoing. We’ve begun that exercise to look at how we can better perform and be more efficient and effective with the services we do...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I stated what FMBS does and how it budgets and provides that eight percent margin. Not all departments have that. Some departments don’t budget any vacancy amount, but I understand where the Member is coming from. Again, we are approving a budget and on those lines that they would be accounted for. So we’re going to do our part to ensure that what we identify for expenditures, those dollars are spent in those areas. If there’s a requirement to move them, we report back to the House. We even, for example, use interdepartmental transfers. So within a department you’re...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The initial dollars that go out for bottle recovery, I believe, are accounted for through the Liquor Commission. The Department of Finance does not account for the fees that are received by the depots through the other operations. They are paid for by the recycling companies in the south. We don't account for that in the Department of Finance numbers. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If we had the money, it would be on our capital acquisition plan for this year. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I request we take a short break as we get the witnesses prepared.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, when we sent the direction out to the departments to come up with a 25 percent reduction in travel, we used actual numbers that they had spent for travel. We wanted to make sure we got an actual amount, not a planned amount. We wanted to use actual numbers that were spent on travel, figuring that’s the most accurate way to proceed. That’s why it’s done in that way. We do have information, for example, within our envelope here we’ve looked at travel for the whole department and we’re looking at the total of about $452,000 of travel and that includes travel...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Once the bottles are returned to the depots, they are theirs to dispose of. As stated, the bottles are crushed and in different locations, different communities…I'll use an example I am familiar with. In Inuvik at times, instead of using crushed rock, they would use the crushed bottles in sanding areas. As stated, the depots have shredders that are supplied by the Liquor Commission. They shred them and send them to the southern facilities for recycling. Again, for Molson and Labatts bottles the depot is the one that deals with them, sends them south and gets any...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The way the power support program is structured today, I don't think that would be able to apply. But we would look at seeing how that could be incorporated into the power support program. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. No, the only ones we include here are actual operating mines that we can establish a property tax on. Those that are in the works now have not been included. Just to be clear, the 30 percent increase, we would do a comparison of the 2004-05 proposed mains to the 2003-04 revised mains because this one is now being assessed and added to the assessment role, whereas we have had the prior mine already included in there. So the increase from the revised mains to the proposed mains, 30 percent of that is due to the addition of the one mine. Thank you.