Tom Beaulieu
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Thank you, Madam Chair. We didn’t hear the question.
Yes.
Thank you, Madam Chair. The current agreement is scheduled to expire March 31, 2014.
This is for staff of the Department of Health and Social Services, not the authorities. This is for staff that are in Inuvik.
Thank you. We are not familiar with any type of difference in what they would cover for travel and what we bill back. So when we bill back, when we have an NIHB client that travels, we bill back the actual to NIHB.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don’t have the information here that specifically provides the role of the whole medical travel area, the medevac area. What I know about that so far is that the medical travel, essentially, is taking people from the communities into a medical point where they need to go to get a service and that could be done through a medevac or it could be done through regular medical travel. But I don’t have any information indicating that we have to go away from the outside of the range of where there might be some ground ambulance service and how we go and get those people. I...
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, we do need an increase in all of the home care. We are hoping to expand the home care services right across as part of the continuum of seniors’ care. We can provide perhaps some of the other financial details. For that I can ask the deputy minister to provide that.
Thank you. For that detail we would have to get back to committee.
That’s the entire budget, the global budget for the whole system.
Yes, Madam Chair, I would.