Tom Beaulieu

The department is willing and prepared to provide our response to the report, and I’m not talking about the initial response, but any actions that we have taken in relation to the 73 recommendations made by the committee to the committee.

Madam Chair, I will have the assistant deputy minister respond to that question.

After our discussions with the authorities on these forced growth areas, submissions from the authorities, we will take them forward to the Financial Management Board and we will put them as part of the budget process.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Last year a lot of this cost was driven by two babies that required blood services, expensive blood services. So it’s quite possible that this coming year that cost may not be there, but we don’t know that at this time.

We will provide youth in care outside the NWT and youth in care within the NWT to Standing Committee on Social Programs.

The child and family services committees across the territory, the main thing we are doing different is we’ve hired a coordinator, who starts this month, who will be going to the communities. We’ve had our staff going into the communities and right now we’re trying to get the one committee that was working during our review of this child and family services committee in Fort McPherson. We feel that is going to start up again. We are fairly enthusiastic about the results when...

Madam Chair, we have made no improvements to that system so far, but we do have it in our work plan for this fiscal year.

We do not have a plan to expand that budget item beyond what is there. In fact, it’s slightly lower this year than last year.

I think this is the final step of the planning, the program planning. I think the next step is to put money into the capital plan. This is the process for all the infrastructure that’s needed. It goes through a process when we first come up with the idea. I don’t think that the department or the government wants to see us spend $1.2 million on program planning, technical status evaluations, schematic planning, planning contingencies, and then put another $4 million in this year to complete the remaining schematic planning and occupancy planning if there isn’t an intention to seriously look at...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is going to be part of our review of modernizing the integrated service delivery model.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. All the nurse practitioner positions are within the authorities but we don’t have the information here on the amount of nurse practitioners who have graduated recently.