Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it's not often we get together here in the Northwest Territories and especially in Yellowknife with western Premiers. And I just wanted to just continue on with housing. My question would be to the Premier.
If there's a way if he could continue to work with the Premiers from -- and the three territories' Ministers -- sorry, Premiers to really push the housing issue for the Northwest Territories and operation and maintenance dollars, if you could look for support and then continue to build on that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Member from Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh. Mr. Premier.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There's been significant advocacy by all the provinces and territories regarding housing funding. That was a prominent theme in this last federal election. And the federal government has been responding to that with some significant announcements and plans on housing. And so we'll continue to push that advocacy forward. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And, Mr. Speaker, the Akaitcho region, this year we got funding to do homeownership inspections in our region, and thank you to the -- sorry, I want to say mahsi to the Minister of housing for helping out.
My question to the Premier, though, is that once -- this report is going to be done by this fall, and the chiefs from the Akaitcho would like to work together with the Premier to bring this report to the Prime Minister and ask for further funding for homeownership repairs in our region. Thank you. So my question to the Premier, can he help us out with Indigenous governments to knock on doors in Ottawa. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We can always work with Indigenous governments to knock on doors in Ottawa, but there's more than just the Prime Minister in Ottawa, and there's more than just the Premier in the Cabinet, so I'd have to defer that question to the Minister of housing. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Premier. Final supplementary. Member from -- oh sorry, Minister responsible for housing.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think this question is important because the work they're doing in the Akaitcho territory, talking about the conditions of homes in their communities, this is something that housing is doing as well through our territorial housing needs assessment. Again, we've done the quantitative assessment and now we're wrapping it up with the qualitative assessment that's hoping to be done by fall of 2025. And with that engagement, we have reached out to all Indigenous governments and Indigenous leadership in communities asking if we can have conversations about this assessment. So it's important work that we hope to see results and then we bring that to Ottawa, along with Indigenous leaders, and talk about needs in communities for housing. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister responsible for Housing NWT. Final supplementary. Member from Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh.
Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. And yeah, I'm very happy to hear that because it's very important on these two items. One is to restore and reinstate the homeownership program, and also to go to Ottawa to push for funding for the homeownership repairs in our riding, and I'm happy to hear that we could probably work together with the Akaitcho chiefs, along with the GNWT leadership, to go to Ottawa, knock on doors together, so I just want to say thank you. Just a statement. Thank you.
Colleagues, I do not want to have statements; I want questions. It's question and answer period. Please, you want to say thank you to the Ministers, do it after session. Thank you.
Oral questions. Member from Yellowknife North.
