Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Hawkins brought up earlier about the department of motor vehicles and I particularly like the Food Network and it makes the wait feel less long. The people at DMV are great, once you get to work with them.

I have a constituent concern that came forward to me about a son of a constituent who was told that there was a three-month waiting list to get their road test. This was confirmed by the office of the Department of Transportation. The unfortunate thing is that not everyone passes their first road test. So in this situation here, we may have people in Yellowknife...

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. I do remind the Members that we are in capital estimates. Some of the questions we’re entertaining here have more operational overtone. So I’ll go back to Ms. Bisaro.

No further questions, Madam Chair.

We are moving to further questions. We have the honourable Member for Frame Lake, Ms. Bisaro.

I heard the word “deferred” many times, and “midlife”. Sometimes I feel the same way.

I guess the Minister did a great job in terms of setting the stage for my next set of questions. He did indicate that Public Works and Services is bringing this number down. This is a number that should be going in the right direction for taxpayers. I guess my question is: As members of committee here, we should see a decrease in that number over the next couple of budgets, that we will not see the repeat of $5 million on an annual capital assessment for budget purposes. Can we get some reassurances that that...

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. There are no further questions. We will go next on the list. Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Madam Chair. My questions will be under the project listing of deferred maintenance. Before I ask my questions here, I think it’s important that the people listening at home understand the definition of what is deferred maintenance versus regular maintenance, and I would ask the Minister to set the record straight on the definition of both those terms. Thank you.

I guess my next question: These prototypes, are they vetted through the different associations, the Nurses Association, the Medical Association, for their input on usability and getting some ideas from the ground up, in terms of making these so-called pilot designs user friendly and adaptable to the northern climate and to the northern type of experience that health care does require?

Will this demolition, remediation work, site preparation, a portion that the Government of the Northwest Territories was responsible for, will this amount be part of the whole component cost and will be capitalized and amortized accordingly?

Now I do appreciate the Minister for giving a detailed response to the question. I do appreciate that.

Going back to this EMR project and budget estimates that was talked about not less than a year ago, that budget was just slightly over $4 million for this whole budget. Now, from what we’re hearing, this budget has now exceeded within one year, or doubled to over $8 million during the last fiscal year. Can we get an explanation why EMR has now doubled in price in one year?