Rocky Simpson

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

The Standing Committee determined that the description of the creation and functioning of the quality assurance Advisory Committees and assurance bodies in the Post-Secondary Education Act is unclear.

When the PSE Act was created as Bill 48 in the 18th Assembly, our predecessor Standing Committee on Social Development made the following observations regarding Advisory Committees in its report on the Bill:,

That Bill 48 was unclear about the role of the Advisory Committees in the quality assurance process, as was the distinction between the work of an advisory committee and...

Please turn to page 1 of the bill. Clauses 1 to 5, does the committee agree?

Clause 2, does the committee agree?

Thank you for pointing that out, Mr. O'Reilly. I was trying to just getting trying to get something for Hay River. Thank you.

Finance, operations expenditures, total department, 20222023 Main Estimates, $335,239,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, will the Minister of Health confirm what options are available to residents outside Yellowknife who cannot access timely medical services in their home community due to physician or staff shortages? Does Stanton have sufficient staff and beds available to take on patients from other communities? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Cleveland. I will now open the floor to general comments on Bill 39.

Is the committee agreed that there are no general comments? Can we proceed to a clausebyclause review of the bill?

Can we proceed to a clausebyclause review of the bill?

Thank you, committee. Oh, Mr. O'Reilly.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, access to healthcare professionals, family diagnosis and treatment is a paramount to our residents.

Mr. Speaker, will the Minister of Health confirm if her department is working on a health recruitment and retention action plan and will it identify why it is that recruitment of professional healthcare workers is proving difficult in the North? Thank you.

SergeantatArms, please escort the witnesses into the Chamber.

Minister, please introduce your witnesses.