Shauna Morgan

Okay, thanks for that. And I wonder if the Minister can explain whether residents in all communities, or some communities, are going to be seeing a change in home care? Are we going to have more access to home care? Different criteria -- like, expanded criteria or more services being offered or what changes are people going to see on the ground in their home? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's good to hear the Minister make that commitment publicly.

So does the HSS actually have a plan for acquiring the human resources needed to staff all of those integrated care teams? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. Okay, so I am glad to hear that we're maintaining the outpatient IV therapy program. I agree that it is critical. It's frustrating that we're having to spend money just to sort of tread water and stay in the same place. I guess maybe I will first just ask what attempts were made to try to renegotiate this funding with the federal government. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Speaker, I want to talk health care. I know the Minister and I do see eye to eye on many broad principles, and likely we can all agree we're striving for continuity of care, recruitment and retention of practitioners, better care closer to home, cultural safety, integrated team-based care, ensuring patients are seen by the right provider at the right time for the right reasons. Great. What worries me is that when I ask for specifics on what progress we're going to see on any of these things and when, I keep getting responses like review is on going or we're always working to improve.

At...

That's all for now. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Okay, thank you, Madam Chair. And finally, the line 4, community clinics and health centres has gone from about $115 million last year, and this year we see almost $111 million. So that's more than a $3 million decrease. Why are we seeing that decrease in funding for community clinics and health centres? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just with the last minute I have here, I wanted to get in a question with -- asking for a bit more detail on -- so the new medical travel case managers that are being put in place, which I think is a really positive step to better manage medical travel, it seems that the Minister has been saying that these three new case managers will be overseeing all medical travel patient cases but that seems pretty overwhelming, so I assume they'll have to, like, have some criteria for which ones they zero on this or focus on reviewing. Are they going to be focusing on just a specific...

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be trying to dig more into that to understand better. But at this point, I also just wanted to ask my understanding is that in terms of gender-based violence crisis hotlines, we've had a sunset in federal funding, at least $125,000 that was supporting crisis hotlines for survivors in the NWT. So is it expected that we will be able to renegotiate this funding, or are we going to see loss of supports or services in terms of crisis hotlines? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I know that there's a lot of numbers here that we're dealing with, but what I am looking at in terms of trends is that we -- over the last three years, we've had less and less actual air ambulance flights, not a huge amount less but a slight -- slight decrease, and so we've just negotiated this new contract, and so I would assume, unless I am wrong, that we're not imagining this year we're going to double the amount of air ambulance flights all of a sudden, that there won't be a need for that because the evidence has been showing the trend over the last few years has been going down, so if we...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so, I mean, the overall purpose of my questions here are just so we have a clear sense of how much the public service and our healthcare providers, how much the staff workforce is growing or not, like at an overall level. And so I wonder if I can also ask at this time about a similar question for the health and social services authorities. And so, similarly, my understanding is that there are federal agreements sunsetting that we expect to renegotiate, and my understanding was there's about 50 positions in the authorities that we expect to renegotiate and would...