Lesa Semmler

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This was federal funding that expired, and so this program is very important to ensure that, you know, patients can be discharged earlier and be able to continue on IV therapy, so they will go through the outpatient IV therapy program. And also where people are, you know, going through emergency, they're not having to be admitted, they can just -- if they -- if they need to have IV therapy, they can be seen and then they can go to the IV therapy clinic to be able to get that outpatient treatment. It's very important that we make sure that, you know, we don't -- we put...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, if the Member is referring to the Council of Leaders, I know that there's usually a communique from the discussions that happen. And I can bring this back to my -- to my colleagues -- sorry, it's been a long day -- bring back to Cabinet, and then I can see if there's a report that's generated or an update for Members on the discussions that happen. I do know that we do have the AOC chair that attends, and I am not sure how that briefing or information is passed along, but I will bring this back to my Cabinet colleagues. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe with all of the legislation that was scheduled -- initially was scheduled to be able to go through for the 20th Assembly, my colleagues on the executive council and myself, we had to prioritize the legislation from each of our departments. I believe that the legislation that the Member has referenced to was lower on the list of the other legislation that we had that we wanted to ensure that got finished before the life of this government. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we keep track of patients that are referred. We keep track of patients that are -- they cancel before they even -- they even fly out. And so those sometimes cost -- there's costs related to that because we have to pay for, you know, the flights and accommodations that were prebooked. There's -- we keep track of the early discharge and self-discharge clients. We keep track of the completions. And we also keep track of people that are repeating treatment. And so that is all -- I believe that's all, you know, part of the work that they're analyzing as part of this...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the Northwest Territories, under the Canadian Health Act, whenever this is an insured service that's available, when there's a non-insured service available, those are -- you know, we cover most of those services in the territory, whether you're First Nation or Inuit or not. The other part around -- you know, if it's medical travel, when children travel there's always an escort provided when it's the child that's the patient. When it comes to discrepancies and whether it falls outside of health, within health, you know, if there is certain issues that...

Yes, Mr. Chair, this is funded, and it's for ongoing funding. As the many gifts we get from the federal government, we start wonderful programs and then we have to decide and choose which ones we can bring forward to keep. This one is important because I believe that it also helps offset many of the calls that would -- like, would be going to a lot of our health centres. So yes, it's ongoing.

Yes, I believe that there was more -- there was other bids that came in. As far as that information, I don't have any other information on it.

Yes, Mr. Chair.

This funding is specifically based for facility-based addictions treatment, so this pot of funding is for when we utilize the contract services for those who have addictions that, you know -- that have polysubstance abuse and multiple -- you know, and they need to go out for treatment and they work with their case workers for the best specific treatment plan, whether it's in territory or out of territory. However, the aftercare funding, I believe, is in the previous section. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the GNWT and Indigenous Service Canada and Indigenous groups all come together, they have a trilateral, they raise their concerns. At these meetings, I believe they are -- I can't recall if they're annual or biannual meetings. So they do address the concerns region by region specific. And at those meetings, then Indigenous Service Canada will take away, you know, what they're responsible for, GNWT takes away what they're responsible for, from those meetings. We also work with the Council of Leaders. And when it comes to the NIHB agreement, there has been...