Julie Green

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we don't pay for people to bypass the public system. They need to engage with local healthcare providers in order to get a referral for services not offered within the territory. And if they obtain that referral, they would also be eligible for medical travel. But these are things that need to be done in advance. I see a trend of people coming to me after they have spent the money asking for a reimbursement. I want to be clear that's not how it works. How it works is you go to your healthcare team and you tell them what your issue it and you get into the...

Thank you. I'm not sure if it relates directly to that. We do have a section at the end well, some of it relates to directly to that. $3,361 relates to the language support for Hay River Health and Social Services. There is a section of the budget at the end called funding allocated to health authorities in which Health and Social Services Hay River Health and Social Services has its own page and some of the spending is well, all of the spending is detailed there. This is specifically page 213. Thank you.

Yes, thank you. There was a big change in the way child and family services was delivered following the 2018 Office of the Auditor General report, with an emphasis on keeping children with their families and in their communities if at all possible. And in our last annual report, we reported that 92 percent of children stayed in their communities and/or with their family or extended family. So last year, we only had eight percent of children in care who are in the permanent custody of the director. The real advancement in this area is that the IRC has passed its own child and family services...

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I intend to table it during the next session. That is the May/June session. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. On my left is Elizabeth Johnson, director of finance. And on my right is JoAnne Cecchetto, deputy minister of health and social services.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We don't have that information. We'll have to return with it.

Thank you for the comment.

I think I'm going to ask the director of finance to have a go at this and maybe that will provide more clarity.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, those are capital projects which are in the capital budget that this year will be presented at the end of August. And so this budget doesn't contain capital projects. It contains the operations and maintenance of both the old hospital and the new hospital. So those capital costs are not in here.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, I recognize that it does present some hardship for elders to travel to Yellowknife for specialist care. But specialist care sometimes requires equipment, exam rooms, specialized nurses to assist in the exam rooms, administration to make the appointments and remind people of them, and so on. And so Stanton is set up to do that. So it's not just a matter of parachuting one person in. It really is a team effort. And so that's the reason that it's offered at Stanton. That's where the resources are. Thank you.