Government Services Committee — Department of Municipal and Provincial Affairs, and also the personnel from the Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation. This morning we are meeting to conduct the review of the Estimates of both the department and the corporation as a separate entity, as is the norm. Normally, we allocate three hours for these meetings. If we need to go beyond that, of course, we would have to reschedule and reconvene at another time. We will follow the same rules that I have been observing for the last eight or nine years, and that are affirmed in Elizabeth's direction to me, in that we will ask the minister to lead off with a fifteen minute time allocation, followed by a fifteen minute allocation of time for the Vice-Chair or his designate to respond. After that we will alternate, if it is your agreement, to a ten minute speaking allocation of time. We will do that as often as we need to do it until the Committee is satisfied that they have attested the Estimates sufficiently and are prepared to vote on them. Having said that, we will move forward. Minister Langdon, probably you would like to introduce or have your staff introduce themselves. Before you do that, I will ask my Committee to introduce themselves for the record. Then we will move forward with your Estimates, starting with Mr. Butler. MR. BUTLER: Roland Butler, MHA for Port de Grave. MR. J. BYRNE: Jack Byrne, MHA for Cape St. Francis. MR. McLEAN: Ernie McLean, MHA for Lake Melville. MR. FITZGERALD: Roger Fitzgerald, MHA for Bonavista South. MR. JOYCE: Eddie Joyce, MHA for Bay of Islands. MR. FRENCH: Terry French, MHA for Conception Bay South. — 4 March 2001