Michael Miltenberger

Thank you. As I indicated in previous questions, there have been meetings recently with the grand chief and some of the leadership from the Dehcho. There was an agreement to bilateral process to make sure we are fully engaged at the land claims and land use table, which would allow us to resolve some of these outstanding issues. We are committed to concluding Edehzhie and, as I indicated as well, I met, when we were down in Ottawa for the Northwest Territories Days, with Minister Kent and raised the issue of the funds that are currently identified for the candidate areas and the need for us to...

Thank you. In Inuvik we’ll have full diesel redundancy. So the storage requirements are going to be, at this point, 90 days and we’ll rely on being able to manage the supply in bringing the replenishment within that 90 days. The reason we say that we can manage with the 90-day supply is that we do have full diesel redundancy so that should there be a weather closure or something else untoward happen, then we would be able to still have no break in service. Thank you.

Thank you. As I indicated in my Minister’s statement today, what we’re aiming for is to be as fully functional as we can by this fall as it pertains to being able to use liquid natural gas and generation of electricity. Thank you.

I can clearly commit to the territorial government’s, our government’s commitment to this process. There are discussions underway with the federal Minister in regard to the federal funding. We have not yet concluded the discussions, but the goal clearly is to maintain that funding and keep it available between ourselves and the territorial government so that the work has been done, and the money that was voted by the Parliament of Canada remains there for the use that it was voted for. Thank you.

We’re going to do some base adjustments to increase the amount of the reserve. As you go through the list, as Mr. Aumond has said a number of times, we were dealing last year with flood, fire and pestilence. As well, we’ve had some significant increases on the cost for services for individuals in care for Health and Social Services.

Mr. Chair, of course other jurisdictions ask the same of us. For example, with all of our students down south, if someone gets sick, then they bill us. They have to be put into the process and get reimbursed. I’m not aware of the particulars, so I see the Minister of Health is right here and he could probably give us maybe enough detail for the Member. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s a $10 million reserve and we’re over that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is another service that is demand driven and fluctuates. The target adjustment of $4 million has already been approved in principle for 2014-15. We are looking at trying to… This is one of the areas where we want to make a base adjustment. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, I am here to present Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2011-2012. This document provides an increase of $591,000 for operations expenditures for departmental over-expenditures in the 2011-12 fiscal year.

During the 2011-12 year-end process to finalize the GNWT financial statements, adjustments were made to departmental expenditures to ensure the statements were prepared in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles. The 2011-12 year-end process identified a number of adjustments that resulted in departments exceeding their...

It is, Mr. Chairman.