Robert Bouchard

I’m not sure. I have some questions about those statements the Minister just made that he’s talked to the authority, he’s talked to the employees, because at my last constituency meeting those weren’t the comments coming from all those people and the fact that they don’t know where this plan is coming from.

Is there a set plan? And if not, we’ve been asking for a plan for over a year. We built the facility in over a year and a half and now we’re looking for the plan in one year. Can we get a plan going forward of how this is going to lay out for the maintenance? We have people that have their...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As you well know, we have a new health centre going into Hay River. We’re hoping later this year that it will be open, and it looks like it might even be a bit ahead of schedule.

One of the situations with the new health centre that we’ve been hearing rumours about for the last year is maintenance staffing may change. With the current health system, we have a hospital and we have our own maintenance crew that takes care of all the maintenance in the facility, takes care of room temperatures and any medical equipment that needs to be adjusted or repaired is done by that...

Thank you, Mr. Moses. I’ll take that as comments. Next I have Mr. Nadli.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Minister Lafferty.

Thank you, Minister Lafferty. Committee, I have several Members: Mr. Yakeleya, Mr. Blake, Mr. Moses and Mr. Nadli. Next I have Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just had some opening comments, I guess, some of the things that have been coming up over the last year. Obviously, education is of great importance to most of us here. One of the biggest budgets here, obviously.

Some of my colleagues talked about, obviously, the pressure that junior kindergarten placed on our educators, our DEAs, the South Slave Divisional Education Board. I guess we were just concerned about how that rolled out, and obviously, we’re looking forward to reviewing and seeing how that will work out in the future. I think, from Hay River’s perspective, we...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, deputy minister. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Committee, we’re on page 341, planning and coordination, operations expenditure summary, $6.323 million.

Thank you, deputy minister. Next on my list I have Ms. Bisaro.