Shauna Morgan

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Does the Minister know how much money is being saved through these retrofits per year in utility costs savings? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So just finally can the Minister tell us how she's monitoring the success of these programs to make sure it's accomplishing what it's meant to accomplish? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. And so that's right around the Reid Lake campground. But can the Minister clarify, does that include new chip sealing where gravel currently exists, or is it just repairing and working on the chip sealing part that already is there? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So my first set of questions are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment.

So since the child and youth counsellors from HSS were shifted out of schools just over two years ago, ECE has given funds directly to the schools and education authorities for in-school mental health and wellness programs; however, many parents are still not clear what specific programs or activities are now available for their children. I understand the Minister has given considerable leeway to the schools to decide how the mental health and wellness funding is spent. Can she commit...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do appreciate that the Minister noted that to get to be ready for an EA, there would need to be a lot of studies and Indigenous knowledge, traditional knowledge studies, also a lot of baseline data collection, which can't be done sort of in the snap of the fingers and often can't be sort of fast-tracked in the sense of there are certain times a year where you need to collect environmental baseline data. And if you need to collect it in the summer, you need to collect it then, you can't just sort of do it in February instead just because you want to.

So just flagging that...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, at this point in session, many of us start to feel that we're losing our minds, so I thought it would be a good day to speak about mental health with a focus on our young people.

We hear from our education authorities, teachers and parents, that the mental health needs of youth have never been more challenging, both the severity of the problems and the types of issues:

Self-harm,

Depression,

Eating disorders,

Those struggling with loneliness and bullying and trauma.

Just over two years ago, the number of child and youth counsellors was reduced by about half and...

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...