Alfred Moses

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just a couple things. I, too, felt concerned about the decrease in prevention promotion, but I’m glad to hear you’re looking at creating some kind of agreement with the wellness funding of $1,200. That was very good to see.

In terms of adult continuing care, I see that the numbers actually dropped about $300,000, and with the increase in senior population and limited spaces in long-term care facilities, what does the department have in place to address the growing population of our seniors, as well as lack of space that’s provided? Thank you.

No further questions. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is going to be in regard to the NWT hospitals. I see from the main estimates 2011-2012 there has been an increase to the main estimates in 2012-2013 in the amount of $1.832 million. Knowing for one that the Beaufort-Delta Health Authority runs on a deficit of about $3 million, and that’s been something that’s been consistent over the last few years, and that we have the Yellowknife authority here that also runs on a deficit, I believe, knowing that and accumulating the costs and something that’s been trending I guess over the last few years, can the Minister...

Thank you. If that’s the case, from the main to the revised there was a difference of $2.713 million. Is that something that we’ll be looking at possibly revising for the main estimates for this fiscal year under population health? Thank you.

Mr. Chair, I am going to put this out there. We have already practiced that policy once, where we took money from other authorities. We put into Stanton, so we put into Beaufort-Delta Health Authority. Sure, they weren’t very happy that because they are doing good practices they were to give up some of their budget. Looking into the future, knowing what just happened from history and that money that they would be not spending will go to another authority, they might just take the initiative to spend all of their money. What does the department have as a plan of action should there not be any...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Considering that it will be the taxpayers who will be paying for this bridge, I’m looking for the operation and maintenance of this bridge on an annual basis. Thank you.

That’s great news and that’s great to see that initiative and working together in that area. There was another mention here of treatment services related to children, youth and families. My colleague talked about child and family services earlier. In another aspect, the Community of Hay River Interagency Committee just had a meeting not too long, and they talked about treatment facilities or treatment programs for youth. We didn’t get a chance to bring them up in some of the business plans, but it is something that the community of Hay River is very strong about.

They’ve really gone through a...

Can the Minister confirm and let us know if he believes that it will have an impact on other capital projects in the small communities? Thank you.

I was going to switch over to another area here. Awhile back we had sort of a press release of this Betty House here in Yellowknife, and under the activity description for community health programs, programs related to emergency shelters and counselling, what is the department doing to provide counselling, therapy and services to Betty House, in particular?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are in follow-up to my Member’s statement that I did earlier, and it’s regarding the Deh Cho Bridge here. It’s going to be directed to the Minister of Transportation.

With the asks for money continuing to come in, does that affect the amount of years that this bridge will be paid off in, and how many more years would that be expected onto what was initially predicted? Thank you.