Bob Bromley

Thank you. Ms. Meade.

Thank you Mr. Elkin. Committee, again, we are on page 8-18, Health and Social Services, activity summary, program delivery support, grants and contributions, contributions, $17.619 million. Agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I speak today on the need to maintain Aurora College’s vital Nurse Practitioner Master of Nursing and Introduction to Advanced Practice programs. The introduction to the Nurse Practitioner Program offered since 1989 is a six-week program running three times a year with an average of 12 nurses attending. Graduating nurses gain advanced health assessment skills and techniques needed to practice in remote rural communities.

According to the course instructor, this training has been proven to prevent the sometimes disastrous treatment and cost consequences when “nurses were...

Page 8-17. Mr. Abernethy.

I realize they are different. I’ll look forward to that information coming forward from an earlier request.

I also wanted to talk about the -- sorry, I still think of it as Community Call Coverage System -- the Territorial Support Network. How is that reflected in this? My impression, from the briefings we’ve had and so on, is that there is some capacity building that’s needed. I believe we have a lot of new equipment out in our health centres now in terms of X-ray capability and ultrasound and so on; perhaps some training needs still. I know bandwidth might be part of the whole equation. I’m...

Moving to page 8-9, Health and Social Services, information item again, revenue summary. Agreed?

Thank you, Minister. Next on my list I have Ms. Bisaro.

Page 8-18, Health and Social Services, activity summary, program delivery support, grants and contributions, contributions, $17.619 million. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you. Page 8-14, Health and Social Services, activity summary, directorate, contributions, $35,000. Agreed?

Mr. Chairman, thank you for that information. I believe I heard Mr. Elkin say that we did that last year too, or perhaps that is current year. Is this now a regular part of our budget? We can expect that this is now funded?