 Mr. Speaker, after listening to the brief contributions from the member of the Henry North and the member for the U4 South, it is some trepidation that I want to use the word brief for my contribution. Mr. Speaker, it is no secret that governments have a significant deficiency when it comes to maintaining the public plants in St. Lucia, and we speak to not just schools but all other government buildings, and I think this is the time is right when a lot more focus should be placed on consistent maintenance of government buildings, government plants, Mr. Speaker. I say that because the motion before us is to transfer from the consolidation fund $5.4 million, particularly to deal with recovery efforts after tropical storm break. And I dare say that had more consistent maintenance be done on our plants, maybe we would not be scrambling to address many of the recovery efforts at some of our schools. I have always said in this House that Schubert-Sultebus has the most schools in the various constituencies, and obviously it's a significant or herculean task in terms of maintaining these school plants. Under the last administration, a significant amount of money was put in annually to maintaining some of these school plants because I remember when coming into office and visiting the schools, the roofs were plagued with termites, termites, droppings were falling on students, the toilets and washroom facilities were horrible. We have in our midst in the gallery a former principal to a politician, and I'm sure she would appreciate at a time as principal the amount of effort that was put into her school in Delsay in maintaining particularly the toilet facilities, and it was something throughout the constituency of Schubert-Sultebus, you know, the condition of these washroom facilities and the amount of money that the past administration put into the entire island education system in terms of maintaining the school system. In fact, I believe the administration before the last one had a budget of about a million dollars annually, and we increased that to tenfold, ten million dollars, and there were quite a significant amount of work done in the communities to ensure the comfort and the security of students, teachers and staff alike, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Education, Member for Dennery Staff, rightfully indicated that a premium should be placed on education. I agree with you, Mr. Speaker, there's no doubt that a lot more needs to be done when it comes to our children, because the education field and platform is changing rapidly, Mr. Speaker. I would appreciate it, you know, because he seemed to be visiting my constituency quite often, that he would at least invite me on some of these school visits, you know, Mr. Speaker. I could definitely point out to him some of the concerns that have been raised, Mr. Speaker. But all that being said, Mr. Speaker, I welcome the demotion and the move, but I think it's important that the maintenance, and not just the maintenance of existing structures, but one of the shortfalls of the politics in our localised area is when something is done by one administration, the next administration seems to just close their eyes on it and it becomes a white elephant, Mr. Speaker. These are some of the things that we need to move against, Mr. Speaker. You know, maintaining Mr. Speaker, the public buildings, because it's continuity all the way, Mr. Speaker. We must continue. And I'm sure you can think of what I'm speaking of, but we'll have a special conversation on that. Well, that was not even off the ground. But St. Jude's is another story altogether, but we'll deal with that. The Prime Minister has said that there's going to be a whole parliament just for St. Jude, so I'm waiting for that, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that being said, of course, I welcome the motion in terms of the amount going to the school plants. I applaud, you know, the funds that have been allocated, but I would also make a plea to the Minister of Education recognizing, you know, the number of school units in the Schubert-Soldier bus area that, you know, further support be given to some still outstanding work to be done. Thank you. Thank you.