Shauna Morgan

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My first question is about the Taltson pre-construction planning. So the Minister said that they're hoping that they would be at the beginning of an environmental assessment stage by the end of 2026-2027. So that would imply that, you know, you would have sort of terms of reference or be moving towards a report that you can make public. So keeping in mind that this is for the next three years, but at what point in the next three years or at what point in the process will the public be able to see, well, first the estimated cost of this project and the business case being...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I definitely want to thank the other committee members and Minister and his staff and all of the members of the public who helped give us insights and advice on this bill. And I do think we ended up making some positive changes and we have a bill that is going to make some positive changes in terms of addressing family violence.

I just wanted to note, this came up again and again with some of our witnesses, this bill itself, and certainly the Protection Against Family Violence Act, can only tackle a small part of all of the work that needs to be done to address family...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a written question for the Minister of Health and Social Services regarding changes to child and youth counselling services.

So it has been just over two years since health and social services child and youth counsellors were shifted out of schools and the number of health and social services counsellors reduced, so my questions are to the Minister of Health and Social Services:

1. Can the Minister provide the number of children and youth, broken down by community or region, who have been accessing child and youth counselling services over each of the past two...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Well, certainly I would appreciate if the department wanted to bring forward in a budget, you know, an extra pot of money just to make sure we get caught up and have those assessments done every five years, I would certainly be in support of that because the last thing we need is for buildings to be falling apart and us not even know because we haven't assessed them.

And so once we do those assessments, I assume there's a list or a prioritization of the different safety issues -- well, life safety issues, things that are threatening the future of that asset being able to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So that is excellent news. Can the Minister explain how quickly they expect to be able to staff up, you know, get the site ready, but particularly in terms of staffing, because I know that's one of our biggest challenges, including training of staff. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. So in order to figure out what we need to do maintenance on and what gets on the list, I assume we would need to be doing facility assessments. And so how often are we doing facility assessments to figure out, you know, what needs repair and maintenance? For example, you know, schools, health centres, all of the government major infrastructure and buildings. Do we have a policy on how often we generally do these facility assessments? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And in terms of options for out of territory psychiatric treatment, my understanding currently is that to get your child enrolled you have to go to social services and prove that you've exhausted all in-territory options. So given that many families may avoid going to social services for fear of having their kids taken away, worst case scenario, will the Minister investigate other options for approving out of territory psychiatric treatment for children, such as referral by a psychiatrist for example? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So given that this project is saving us millions of dollars annually, has the department looked at opportunities to scale up this project? Are there more energy efficiency projects we could do if we had more money? Because it sounds like, you know, the sooner we do them, the sooner we can save more millions of dollars. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to ask questions now to the Minister of Health and Social Services, also about mental health and psychiatric supports for children and youth. So I understand that health and social services is doing some kind of review of the entire system of youth mental health treatment. Can the Minister tell us what stage of the review it's at and when we can expect a decision or an action plan on a way forward? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to go on to a different project. The capital asset retrofit fund, so retrofits to increase energy efficiency. Can the Minister tell us how much is the budget for that for 2026-2027? Thank you, Mr. Chair.