Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to continue on with questioning from yesterday for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs regarding the recommendations from the after-action review.
The review recommended that the government come up with a structured process to review, prioritize, and act on the findings of not just this review but all the previous after-action reviews so we don't keep repeating mistakes over and over. The government said it agreed but then explained how findings are being brought to the territorial planning committee, but this process doesn't seem to be transparent or leading to efficient and effective improvements.
So, first, will the government establish a public dashboard or some other mechanism that is accessible to everyone in the public that lists all the recommendations coming out of past after-action reviews, the government's response, and charting the progress towards actually achieving the recommendations? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Member from Yellowknife North. Minister of MACA.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So in regards to establishing a dashboard, we don't have any plans to put anything up there as of yet, but I will commit to checking with the department and see what we can do to put something out there so that there's the availability for residents to follow on what actions will be taken for all 35 recommendations. That being said, the recommendations that have been put out there, our goal, to make sure that we're committed to implementing them, following them, and making sure that our task is to have the least impact on communities that don't have the ability to fully implement what some of these recommendations are. For an example, they may not have the capacity to fully implement all the training right away and will need the government's support, which we will do.
So, again, to put that on a website or a database just for everybody to review, I don't know if that's possible, but I will commit to looking into it so we can see what we can do. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So in order to ensure accountability to achieving recommendations, we also have to be clear as to what the recommendations were actually saying or actually recommending. For example, Recommendation 19 is to create an emergency social services plan to address what will be done to support vulnerable populations in emergencies. The government has said it agrees but then offloads this responsibility once again to local communities when what the report said was missing is a territorial emergency social services plan because social services are a territorial responsibility.
Will the Minister ensure that a territorial emergency social services plan for vulnerable populations is created and that the GNWT will take a lead on implementing actions that we know ahead of time will be beyond local capacity, such as airlifting vulnerable groups or housing them together during evacuations? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As this involves more than just MACA, every community, every agency, every NGO, every department is responsible to have some form of emergency plan. These emergency plans are not always run by the government. So, you know, a lot of this falls under EIA and with the emergency social services, but the goal is to have documented four emergency plans all vulnerable and residents who need assistance, to have the assistance available in the case of an emergency, whether it be a local emergency, small emergency, territorial emergency, or regional emergencies.
So our goal is to have these working groups in place in order to assure from the community level all the way up to the territorial government that these plans are in place to help residents navigate during an emergency. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Final supplementary. Member from Yellowknife North.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So I know the Minister has mentioned over and over again that some of these responsibilities fall to local communities. Will the Minister ensure that funds are actually available for communities to implement the preparedness activities, the things they're committing to in their emergency plans, rather than simply offering templates, workshops, information? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Having been at the other end of this, I totally agree. We do supply a lot of funds to assist local communities in emergency planning. There are some funds available for training, whether it be on the ICS system, which the GNWT also does some of that training and support community governments in the ICS training. And part of that being we need to make sure that what services or training that's being provided is something that's needed or the community's capable of doing. Some of them might need the resources of other communities or the government.
So I will look at what we need for some of these communities, and we'll work with the community governments, continue to work with community governments on fulfilling their capacities and making sure that they're ready in the time an emergency as needed. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Oral questions. Member from Monfwi.
