Julie Green

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I'll ask the deputy minister to answer, please.

Yes. The person who's looking for that kind of support has a number of options. They could use adult services. They could use the counselling program to get set up with additional supports. The deputy minister might have a few more ideas.

Yes, thank you. Yes, that's right. It would come in through supplementary appropriation. Now all the money we receive on doing work on behalf of others is brought into the budget through a supplementary appropriation.

Thank you. The chargebacks on that page relate to the money that we pay to the TSC for the support they give us for our various electronic and health information systems.

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the different entities of the health authorities report quarterly on where they stand visavie their budget with variance reports. And so that means that Fort Smith would need to contribute its information to create the variance report. So my recommendation is that the Regional Wellness Council speak with the COO about obtaining that information on a quarterly basis. Thank you.

We're looking for that, Madam Chair. I don't think that that's what you're looking at on page 204. This is a federal contribution agreement that provides for this through one of the existing bilaterals. So I feel like it would be near the front with revenue summary maybe.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it's true the family residency program is just one. We don't have any other formal programs. But medical residents do come to the NWT from time to time to study there. The limitations on this program are funding. And the ability of resident doctors to provide preceptor or mentorship to the residents. So where we have such a high vacancy rate at the moment, that really is a limiting factor for how many residents we can take at this time. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, according to the last annual report from child and family services, 93 percent of children were living in their own home or in their own community. And of all the children in care, about half of them are supported with voluntary support agreement. Thank you.

The program isn't offered in correctional centres but the correctional the health staff in the correctional centres work for the health authority. So they could make a referral to the FASD clinic.

Yes, thank you. Since 2004, we've had a fund called the territorial health initiative fund, and we've used it for special projects like creating NTHSSA and starting the primary care health reform. But we've also allocated $5 million in the current agreement each year towards the cost of medical travel. So this agreement expires on March the 31st this year, and so we did not include that amount of money in the budget because we do not yet have an assurance that we're going to have an extension to the territorial health initiative fund or for how much money.