Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am going to turn to the Minister of Infrastructure now for a few questions. Mr. Speaker, what is the functional life left on the Yellowknife airport terminal? There's been lots of talk about airport development. I am just curious if the Minister has an answer on that. Thank you.
Thank you, Member from Frame Lake. Minister of Infrastructure.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, let's just say it's at its end of life. That terminal was built in the early 1960s. I so happen to fly home every once in a while, and there's actually a picture of the original airport in one of the terminals, one of the exit ways there. It's actually pretty interesting. But it is at end of life. It's been added on numerous times. So, you know, the building has done its work and a lot of the work's being done to plan for future development. So it is at end of life, and we've obviously got to keep that going with the developments that are going on, so there is work being done to also look at updating it temporarily, obviously, because there are plans to move ahead with other things. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, continuing with the airport, are there amenities, features, or needs that the current terminal already cannot accommodate? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think it goes without saying, you know, when there's peak times there it's pretty busy. I think everybody has acknowledged that. When you have a certain amount of jets on the apron there, you know, it's at capacity. So there is a lot of, you know, things that have, you know, not being able to do what we can do there. There's also issues with the washrooms, and there's some work going forward to try to accommodate that. So although the facility has reached end of life and the area is at age, a lot of work is being done to help maintain the facility and the grounds while we're operating it still. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister of Infrastructure. Final supplementary. Member from Frame Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate these insights from the Minister. So the next obvious question here, of course, is knowing that the facility is out of sight when will a solution be brought forward in the five-year capital plan for the airport? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There's plans in place to get this moving ahead but obviously with all the developments recently of the Department of National Defence investing in the area, there's a lot of work being done, it's had to, you know, kind of slow down a little bit to wait for the Department of National Defence. But, again, working closely with the Department of National Defence, plans are coming along to bring more plans, more stable plans, more, you know, financial plans to the whole strategic plan for the area. So hopefully we'll have something here relatively soon. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister of Infrastructure. Oral questions. Member from Great Slave.
