Lesa Semmler

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, for that detail, I will go to the ADM.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, a lot of it is within the health authority, especially NTHSSA, a big chunk of it is the collective agreement. But, however, as I mentioned before, this is the way health budget works. It's kind of -- so remember I was talking about that $14 million and we reallocated it, and so some of -- there's other funding that we have that we reallocated to historic deficits so those positions may have not come up before and now they're actually funded positions. So they're going in as funded positions, and I -- if I may, I mean, if you want the details of that, I can turn it...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am going to give that to the ADM to try and explain how that works, and see if that helps. Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as this program is the payer of last resort and some people who previously may have had other insurances because -- and due to the specific disease, you know, they may have had one of the specific diseases or a dependent that had one of the specific diseases on that file that would have made them eligible, that person eligible for this program, and so therefore due to the way that it's calculated based on -- I think it's net? Net income and the 30 bands, then they -- you know, they chose -- maybe they -- then that's the thing is that -- and for those that --...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We don't have that level of detail here.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, that is the cost share agreements with the First Nations/Inuit home and community care sunset funding because we were in the same situation, like, with the other agreements. We have a couple agreements that happened partway through this year. So that's not reflected in here so that's why it shows up as a decrease. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If it's -- relates to medical travel, the medical travel review is actually being led by, I think, the department and working with the medical travel team within NTHSSA, I believe. So that is where the bulk of that is happening. It's not necessarily the PA. The PA is more of an overall -- works with the executive and to fulfill the mandate that's been given to him by myself, Minister. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

For that level of detail, I'll go to the ADM if it's okay.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, what we have seen is we've had -- what I do have is December 20th, we have 794 individuals that are registered for this benefit. And to the statistics on this is we've seen some member -- like some people who were previously on the program within it that they've chosen not to continue with it as the deductible might be more than what they were actually spending. And so, say for instance, somebody who had a $600 deductible, maybe it was equivalent that their medications only added up to that so there was no need for them to pay the deductible to just get the...

Yes.