Rocky Simpson

Thank you, Madam Chair. And out of those 102 units, are any of them slated for sale to clients; and if so, how many? Thank you, Madam Chair.

There's 102 vacant units being renovated, based on what's in this document. Beyond that, are there units that aren't in this document that are vacant and just sitting there in communities? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd ask the Minister as well, you know, if we have if tenants have to be relocated, who covers that cost, and are the tenants once the retrofit is done, are the tenants, the original tenants, allowed back in. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, an issue that is discussed is of some health care staff is the inequity in the treatment between permanent staff and locums. It is assumed locums are treated better when it comes to compensation and time on the job. Can the Minister confirm if this is an issue and if so, how is it being addressed? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister tell this Assembly if these positions are concentrated in Yellowknife or throughout other communities as well; and, due to increased vacancy of health care professionals, is the department looking to locums to fill the gap going forward? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I want to talk about the use of locum tenens in our health care system. Mr. Speaker, is important that the delivery of health care in the NWT is timely. We must ensure that all communities are provided service, whether they are staffed by physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, or other health care professionals. Locums are, and are becoming more, important in the way we deliver health care in the NWT.

Mr. Speaker, it was been a number of years since we had a fulltime position in Hay River, or at least one we could call a "family physician.” We have...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Is there any point where you would when you deem the unit unusable or if you did sell it, would you just look at selling the unit itself and keeping the land? Has that been done in the past? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess the next question is the ones that will be sold to or the ones that are that you said were either going to be deemed not the ones that couldn't be occupied and were going to be deemed, I guess, slated for demolition but then at the same time you said that possibly that same unit, it may be sold off. So if you're going to sell a unit that's, you know, borderline, do you also look at doing repairs to that unit prior to selling it to a client? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So it's interesting to hear that you might sell them or you might tear them down so it's I'm not sure what kind of shape they're in. And I guess that kind of leads up to my my next question here, is of those units, of the stock that we have, how many are deemed beyond repair and yeah, how many are deemed beyond repair as of today? Thank you.

I don't I didn't get the answer. So I guess what I'm what I'm going to assume here is that out of the 20 some hundred units that Housing Corporation has, there's only 102 units that are sitting empty right now.