Shauna Morgan

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 first I should say, too, that I know this is an area that's important to many of my constituents and many others too who are suffering from cancer, blood cancer, who have seen changes in these services and are particularly, you know, vulnerable, especially going back and forth to Alberta. So can the Minister clarify, and so I can understand correctly, are we hiring a person that's going to be based in Alberta for this service? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So picking up on the same line of questions as my colleague, around the air ambulance contract, can the Minister clarify what -- how much per year did the cost of the contract increase by? Because it looks like our medical travel budget has increased by $13.3 million. So that's more than double it was previous. How much of that increase is due to the air ambulance contract specifically? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to submit Written Question 30-20, Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority Action Plan.

During the December 4, 2025, public briefing to the Standing Committee on Social Development by the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority and the healthcare system sustainability unit, the public administrator stated that the NTHSSA has completed 30-, 60- and 90-day action plans. My question is for the Minister of Health and Social Services:

Can the Minister provide the NTHSSA's 30-, 60- and 90-day action plans, along with a detailed...