Lesa Semmler

That's correct. The only change is that decrease for the sobering centre. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, with the billing part of air ambulance, so say for instance non-insured health benefits, all of the air ambulance flights for First Nation and Inuit in the Northwest Territories that don't fall under employer benefits get billed to NIHB, and I believe that the billing for NIHB is -- has what's -- there's more going through to NIHB to cover those costs now. I am not sure if it wasn't being billed before. Yeah, my understanding is there was -- some of it that wasn't being billed. And so that -- government was paying for those costs. And so with the -- I believe...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as we all know in this House, any time GNWT wants to implement some kind of a computer technology, it's not as easy as just the Minister saying it on the floor of this House. It's going to take analysis. It's going to see if it meets our standards of keeping health information, you know. So if there is an easier route, then I will definitely commit to being able to seeing if we can have -- you know, that through the next business plan rounds to implement; however, at this point I can't commit to ensuring that it's there. I will commit to seeing that if...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. You know, and I appreciate the comments from the Member. And, you know, I think one of the areas where -- since COVID, I believe that most of the healthcare providers -- and we've heard from healthcare practitioners, health care -- you know, all healthcare providers and people working in the 24-hour system is this work-life balance. So if -- even if we were to say, okay, we're going to pay you more, people only want to work so much hours, and they may not increase the amount of hours they do by just by increasing the pay, you know. It actually could be negative. Like, you...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so the scope of this project, I believe, is quite extensive and daunting, and I would assume that there are few suppliers who could possibly meet the entire contents of that RFP. Does the Department or the Minister have a contemplation of how long it may take to find a successful applicant? Are there companies that they've identified that probably have the capabilities to do this work? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the conversations that I've had with NTHSSA, as this is the operational arm of the health, they have stated to us that these types of positions right now that they are -- they can pretty much say that they are able to recruit these positions, especially at the territorial hospital. And so what we have done, you know, and I think is that we've asked them to start to look at it, to be able to start that operationally and look as to what it looks like. And as some of -- under the direction of myself is to -- because NTHSSA, you know, they create their...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll turn that over to deputy minister Mr. Doody.

Yes, I would just refer to the funding to other sources in the appendices. That is where it's broken down to the different authorities. And so I believe if the Member is looking for the Tlicho health authority, TCSA, that would be broken down of what that's allocated there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as the federal budget was only announced late in November that before -- before that, we -- you know, and then we begin to work with them to renew these two program areas. And so as of right now, I believe that the funding hasn't changed in either one of those with the federal government. We just are in the process of negotiating it and once those are signed off, I believe they're not -- there's no change in them. We already know what they are; we just have to sign them off now. And then because they expire at the end of March 31st, the current agreements, we...