Daryl Dolynny

I appreciate the Minister’s reply to that. As also mentioned, and in keeping the overarching issue, the directorate is in mind when I’m asking this question, the question of the performance indicators. Again, we have a national agreement to maintain and report on 32 of these so-called comparables, national comparables across Canada. Does the Minister foresee that that will be in full effect during this fiscal year and will this reporting be available publicly by residents? Thank you.

So, if I’m following the money correctly and if I’ve heard correctly here today, about $800,000 has been put aside for mobile treatment, or at least the establishment of mobile treatment. Can the Minister indicate where that $800,000 is in this new budget structure?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So, I guess the question is, and the answer is, we’re still going to be waiting here.

Can the Minister indicate, what is the department’s plan to deal with those residents who failed to qualify for supplementary health benefits, who cannot afford their prescriptions for medical devices, who are left high and dry with Health Canada, especially for patients like Patrick Kuptana in Tuktoyaktuk? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. I have two questions and both of them, really, come under the category of grants and contributions, especially contributions. The next page obviously breaks down that contribution in terms of the different types of funds and programs. One of particular interest to me is the mental health and addictions, which is at $1 million, and the unaligned healing, which is a $225,000. Sorry, mental health and addictions at $625,000 and unaligned healing at $1 million. Given the nature of the day when the majority of Members here spent a large part of our day...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Considering what we’ve just heard from the Minister that the federal government has paused further activity on this file, can the Minister conceive the possibility of a framework agreement or an MOU with all stakeholders on the land of the management of East Arm and could this be done during the life of this Assembly?

I appreciate the Minister and the administration having that dialogue.

Can the Minister indicate to the House – as he indicated northern tools – what northern tools, if any, could be used to mitigate and administer this land being considered? Thank you.

I don’t think I have any more questions on this activity. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to introduce, through you and to you, a resident of Weledeh, Mr. Spencer Decorby. Thanks for joining us. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As was eloquently just spoken by some of my colleagues, there are a number of initiatives on the go here in the Northwest Territories within this department. A lot of them have to do with legislative framework, and I just want to mention some of these here.

As I said earlier, we have the Health and Social Services Professions Act. We’ve got changes to the Child and Family Services Act. We’ve got the Mental Health Act, which is pending. We’ve got a Human Tissue Donation Act, which might have some dollars attached to it potentially during this year. We have, potentially, a...

I’d appreciate if we can get that level of detail. Again, interest compounded daily, monthly, yearly adds up, especially when you’re dealing with potentially over $11 million, $12 million. Again, public accounts has shown us that that rolling average went down for a couple years and now it’s back up there. Again, I think it was around $7 million. I encourage the department to keep a handle on that because that’s a cost. It’s a cost we don’t talk about. It’s a cost that’s a burden to the taxpayer.

To the question, though, in terms of zero-based budgeting and looking at forecasting for the 2015...