Daryl Dolynny

I appreciate the Minister’s offering. I will take it with much enthusiasm. Unfortunately, it may not help us a lot today. It’s important, as we said, on a go-forward basis that Members on this side of the House, if we’re dealing with any type of appropriation, it doesn’t matter the dollar figure and especially when it does matter with specific large numbers, such as we have before us, that Members are well informed to the point that we can make good decisions for the people that we serve. I take this information with respect and I look forward to the expedient performance of the department in...

Again, the numbers don’t lie, and to take this one step further, the report also shows from 2013-14 to the 2014-15 year a decrease in inspections of licenced premises in every community in the Northwest Territories except the Yellowknife community. In fact, inspections are up in our community by 3 percent.

So, can the Minister offer an explanation to this trend? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, I’d like to welcome the department here today. I guess, first and foremost, I want to extend my congratulations to the fire suppression teams that work with us, that work alongside us through our MARS agreements for doing an outstanding job this fire season. In the wake of what we’re continuously hearing as some of the heaviest drought years that this territory has seen for many years, decades, I’m very pleased that there was no loss of life and that there was very little loss in terms of buildings and dwellings.

The reason why I’m leading into that is I want to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, through you and to you, I’d like to introduce one of our recipients, we’ve heard earlier today, for the Ukrainian award, and that is a member of Range Lake, Trisha Graham. Thank you for joining us today.

Were there any caveats to that $2.5 million in total in terms of performance, if we weren’t able to perform our duties to use that money wisely or efficiently or effectively to the betterment of the YK Centre improvement? Were there any caveats that that money would go back to the landlord?

Because I may not be here to see the completion of this project, by what proof or performance guaranteed where 18th Assembly Regular Members are able to follow this spending and making sure that indeed the government is compliant with all the terms and conditions to the overall $2.5 million given to us? Thank you.

Order, committee. I’d like to call Committee of the Whole back to order. With that, we’ll continue on capital estimates as agreed upon earlier. With that, I’ll turn it over to the Minister responsible for the Department of Health and Social Services to see if he has any witnesses that he’d like to bring into the House.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Committee, we’re on pages 38 and 39 of your capital estimates. Administrative and support services, infrastructure investments, $44.134 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Continuing on with questions, pages 38 and 39, administrative and support services for the Department of Health, I have Mr. Hawkins.