Government Services Committee — Department of Municipal and Provincial Affairs and the Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation. The procedure has not changed. The minister will have fifteen minutes for opening remarks and someone on this side, Jack or Bob, will have fifteen minutes to respond. I want to introduce to you the Committee members: the Vice-Chair, Mr. Jack Byrne; Robert French, the MHA for Conception Bay South; Gerald Smith, the MHA for Port au Port; and Anthony Sparrow, the MHA for Placentia & St. Mary's. We have one member who has not yet arrived but I understand he is in the building and will be along shortly. We will change up every ten minutes or so, if it is agreeable. Minister, I want to welcome here tonight, you and your staff, and you may begin by introducing your staff, then continue with your fifteen-minute statement if you so wish. MR. A. REID: On my right, Mr. Chairman, representing Newfoundland and Labrador Housing, is Clyde Granter, the new CEO, and Ed Heath is Vice-President of Finance. Sitting here on my left is Bob Noseworthy, the new Deputy Minister; Ramona Cole, the brand new Assistant Deputy Minister; Felix Croke, sitting behind me, is the Manager of Financial Operations; and John Moore is the Director of Local Government Policy. If you do not mind, Mr. Chairman, I am going to read my opening remarks and most of the remarks, I think, in the opening statement refer to my Municipal and Provincial Affairs Department, but I will be making some comments about Housing. And to be quite honest about it, if you would prefer, I would prefer to do Housing first and let them go, if the Committee is satisfied with that rather than - because I think most of the questions will probably come from Municipal Affairs, so why keep them around for two or three or four hours, the length of time we will be here tonight. — 30 April 1997