Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Mr. Speaker, just following from my statement, has the Minister considered developing a priority list for actioning outstanding environmental audit recommendations? Thank you.
Thank you, Member from Frame Lake. Minister of ECC.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, at this time there's no essential prioritization of the items from the audit. Many of the items identified in the audit, as well as the outstanding items from 2020, are quite crosscutting and involve a number of partners that really don't all have the ability to participate at the same level. So as a department, we are certainly committed to the recommendations. And within the audit report in tab D I believe, it does lay out our commitments to those recommendations as well as lays out specific timelines and whether we are fully committed and fully agree with the recommendations of the audit or if we are in partial agreement and, again, what those timelines and commitments look like. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Certainly, I appreciate that response. However, I think that there's probably some areas where GNWT does have full control over. Even if areas don't have full control, setting them as a priority and saying that we want to get this one done quickly helps us communicate with our various partners as to why we're moving on something quickly. So I would just push back to the Minister. I think it may be helpful to establish a priority list, and it will help us move these things from things that we're working on to things that we have done. So can I just ask the Minister to maybe consider sitting down with the relevant Ministers to establish a priority list based on our needs. Thank you.
Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, you know, I appreciate the position of the Member, and I think it's a really good point to raise. Many of the recommendations, you know, the work that's done on a lot of these are ongoing over long periods of time and have other contributing factors that sort of, you know, impact our ability to sometimes complete within the window of the audit, so within that five-year window, and they may be continually ongoing through time. Certainly, I see a lot of value in, you know, as you say what we have total control over as the GNWT, you know, in providing a little bit more focus. And I will certainly have that conversation with the staff at ECC. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister of ECC. Final supplementary. Member from Frame Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I appreciate that commitment from the Minister, and I think that this is certainly something we could discuss at committee as well. And I don't think I have a follow-up question. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, sorry.
Members, please make sure you have questions, not commentary. Thank you.
Oral questions. Member from Range Lake.
