Sandy Lee

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The planning study money is for this fiscal year and at the end of that we should have a detailed plan on the need and the functional programming and the total dollar amount for Stanton. So I can’t say it’s going to be in the books next year, but it will be working through the process.

The B-C health centre has to be in the community so that we have access to physicians.

I do appreciate what the Member is saying. The jobs or the positions or the people that are in our communities do serve in two different areas. Economically those are jobs and they have those jobs and those are important to them. Then in terms of care, it is so much more preferable for our people to be taken care of on our own. So I agree with the Member that there is room in our health care system, health and wellness, where we train and we have people in communities to take care of those who need assistance. Largely those are usually elders or they could be people with chronic conditions...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have with me Ms. Paddy Meade, deputy minister of Health and Social Services.

No, this will be a GNWT asset.

As we’re all aware, we’re dealing with the capital plan for ‘11-12. The resolution planning study is up for next fiscal year as soon as possible, because it needs to get on the books. We are dealing with a land issue there and we know our review of the facilities show that Lutselk’e needs to be in the cycle by 2015.

Now, I can’t speak for what would happen for the future Assemblies, but our studies have shown that Lutselk’e is one of the five Level B facilities that needs to get into the next stage in the planning and the capital plan process. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, what I would like to do is just communicate to the Member on the legislation for the department that we have in the type that we are trying to get through and that is quite... I understand every safety issue and every profession, well, many professions have come forward and asked us to regulate. We have to do the major ones first and we are just working really hard to get through those.

As I stated earlier, I have the umbrella or omnibus profession legislation that we are looking at, but it will take some time. It is not something that we could do in the next little while within...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The land tenure issue or whether a building will be leased once built, those are all responsibilities under DPW. We apply for a project under function and once it’s approved, DPW takes care of that. I could undertake to get that information from the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The current process is that we are part of the, sort of, replacement of small equipment, under $50,000, is it? Capital? But we are working to see if we could have a separate category for medical equipment, because they have different requirements and some of them are urgent. If something goes wrong, we need to be able to replace them, because otherwise our people do need those machines to do things or to do diagnoses or whether it’s an X-ray machine or… Anyway, we are working to separate that and come up with a different evergreening process for medical equipment, and...

This is a time and capacity issue and I think that it’s important to let the people know that those professions that the Member mentions do have professional bodies that they have to belong to and adhere their rules to. I mean, there’s a difference between a registered therapist and other massage therapists, for example.

Mr. Speaker, I don’t believe that we can have this legislation completed within the life of this Assembly, but the Member knows, having been here for more than one Assembly, that there is a list of legislation that moves its way up, and this is added onto that list. Thank you.