Rylund Johnson

Yeah, thank you. You know, I get we're probably not going to finish everything up. But can someone just explain to me I mean, there's certain positions where clearly or it seems to me come April 1 you absolutely have to decide, you know, who is the superintendent in a region. To just have two people saying they are this regional superintendent for ECC seems a recipe for disaster. So, you know, how can someone just explain to me how we decide that? Is it a public competition, do we does the deputy minister and the Minister appoint one of the two? Could anyone, in theory, apply; I just want...

Thank you, Madam Chair. When can we expect to see an organizational chart for the new department? Thank you.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Speaker. You know what, I'm actually glad to hear that. I think we're getting into semantics. When people say end homelessness, they mean that when you go out and count the people on the street, they haven't been chronically homeless usually for a period of about three months. You know, you want to try and get someone back into housing in some sort of form, whether it's transitional, in three months. So I don't want to get into semantics of what ending homelessness does as long as we're somewhat in the same ballpark.

My real question my next question, though, Mr. Speaker...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You know, it's kind of been a long march to one day the GNWT would have a plan to address homelessness. You kind of think it would be something we'd have in the first place, but I'm hoping that the Premier could give us some good news and update the House on when the strategy to address homelessness will be complete? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can I get an answer so okay, the goal for April 1st to have all the ADMs that I can see on this chart here and all the directors in place. Would that mean that they are all just acting in those roles, or would they actually have been hired to that role through the HR processes? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I guess it's my hope that before we approve the budget for this new department, MLAs would be able to see some sort of even if it's the draft before April 1st, detailed organizational chart. I'm going to drill down a little bit more into some questions about that.

Can someone explain to me how we go about deciding you know, presumably I'm looking at this, there's obviously duplications. You can only have one director of finance, you know, and one manager of comms or policy or how you go about deciding and when you will decide who of the duplicate positions gets...

There is some funding under the capital project for the transition into the new facility as well as some limited funding in this $8.6 million.

The $844,000 is primarily with a few contractors under our administration or information services, mail chargebacks, Xerox under finance, and some administrative contracts such as French language services, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Alberta // Renal. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, you know, I think it's safe to say that, you know, $11.9 million of additional money is good but when you have an over $200 million deficit, you know, it's real long way to go.

I was hoping I could just get a brief summary of what the main drivers of the deficit are. I know a number of years ago there was a report; I think it was overtime was a big one. I believe reliance on locums was another one. Outofterritory services. But perhaps if someone can educate me as to what the main drivers are and if you have, you know, kind of how much of a percentage those drivers...

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. So I think it's safe to say we're going to surpass the $200 million mark on our health system deficit.

You know, I get part of that is, you know, being dealt with through or looking for efficiencies and part of that is that we just need some more funding for health in general. Can the Minister speak to the extent the budget we're dealing with for the next fiscal, whether we anticipate that's going to curb the deficit at all? You know, clearly, we're still going to run one but perhaps at least it could plateau instead of increasing every year. Thank you, Madam...