Julie Green

Yes, thank you. I'd like to answer a number of different points the Member made. So starting with the wait times, the average wait time for a bed in a southern treatment facility is 23 days. We don't contract dedicated beds. 23 days is, in most cases, less time than people waited to get into Nats'ejee K'eh because Nats'ejee K'eh ran one month of women, one of men, one month of women, one month of men. So if you applied let's say you're a woman and you applied on week two, you would be waiting six weeks to get into Nats'ejee K'eh. So the wait times, if anything, are better than they used to be...

Thank you. That money is divided between the disabilities council to provide communitybased respite services and Inclusion NWT to provide respite services in Yellowknife. So the money is directed to nonprofit organizations with subject matter expertise to expand on. Thank you.

Yes, thank you. I think that the best idea is to have the Member look in the annual report which, for NTHSSA, was tabled last fall, and there would be a breakdown in there. And if he requires additional information, please go ahead and ask me again. Thank you.

Yes, thank you. All of these funds are prioritized for Indigenous governments. They have five months to put in their application from the beginning of the fiscal year. And if they haven't applied at that point, then the fund is available to other organizations that have a partnership with the Indigenous government. So there is no scope here for an individual to apply. But there is the scope for the partnership between a community organization and an Indigenous government to apply. Thank you.

Yes, thank you. We're waiting for some modifications that were required before we take the keys, which we expect to do this spring. Then they'll be a commissioning period and a period where people and equipment is moved in to the building to make it operational. And at that point, the public will be welcomed in to the building. That's why we're saying summer. There are some loose ends around exactly what amount of time is allocated to each of those activities. I think that once we obtain the keys to the building and begin the commissioning, we'll be in a better position to identify a moving in...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Member for the question. There are a total of 20 students in the final year of the bachelor of nursing program, and NTHSSA has made a conditional offer to each of them. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, can I confirm with the Member that she's looking at page 192?

Yes, thank you. When there's a suicide in a community, obviously it affects the whole community, and I personally reach out to community leadership and ask how they want to be supported. And in the case of Tuktoyaktuk last fall, they told me that they wanted to bring in Jordan Tootoo as a speaker and to launch the House of Hope in Kitty Hall to provide things for the youth to do. It is youth mostly involved. And also to provide them with inspiration to fend off the darkness and depression. So this fund is about money that communities can apply for. The interventions that happen after a suicide...

Yes, thank you. Yes, there would be a partnership required of the nursing staff in home care, along with the paid family caregiver. They would be offering different kinds of services to the clients. Some of them are more medically sophisticated, if I can say, administration of medication, changing dressings, and so on whereas the paid family caregiver would be doing basic necessities of life.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the new health funding is not in this budget. What the government has proposed is $11.9 million in new funding and that comprises $2 million one-time only increase to the CHT, which is to pay for surgeries and backlogs; $7 million in tailored bilateral agreements in four priority areas; and $2.9 million in incremental funding for the territorial health investment fund. There's been no amount yet identified for personal support workers’ wages. But that is also one of the commitments that Canada made. So the detail on the spending and how it's going to be...