Bob Bromley

Thanks to the Minister again. I appreciate the Minister taking the initiative to put those monitoring actions in place. I know the Minister is aware that there have been some very serious events in there and the emergency department with a few injuries that are both physical and mental and some longer lasting than others. Many believe that there is insufficient support from non-nursing staff, particularly security that people at the hospital, simply because they don’t have the training and the direction. What does the Minister have planned in the order of responding to those needs? Thank you.

Thanks for the Minister’s response there. I’ll look forward to when he can give me a positive response to that question. When I say Yellowknife, I include Ndilo and Detah, obviously, and I’m happy to see that we’re moving towards a territorial approach.

My other questions were with respect to the psychiatric nursing unit at Stanton and the training that staff there have for physical restraint when it’s needed to deal with the potential for violence and injury. Are staff trained for physical restraint and how frequent are the incidents of violence in the psychiatric nursing unit at Stanton? I...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciated that exchange. Just a couple more questions on that. Obviously, the Minister knows the Yellowknife program was pulled because there were insufficient midwifes. One person could not do it. Ms. Bisaro was asking about one position. Obviously, we would need a team of midwives dedicated to Yellowknife, so I hope that will be a focus of the discussion when that’s appropriate. It sounds like it’s coming up soon.

I know the Minister is aware that there is a very committed bunch of midwifery, I’m not sure I would say activists as active in the promotion, and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to return to item 6 on the Order Paper, recognition of visitors in the gallery.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Monday, February 23, 2015, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Sahtu, that the Legislative Assembly strongly recommends that the Department of Health and Social Services clarify procedures for Stanton Territorial Hospital employees to follow when violent incidents occur, including procedures expressly for the use of physical restraint in these cases;

And further, that the Department of Health and Social Services direct Stanton Territorial Hospital management to hire security personnel with...

The Minister’s response is much appreciated. Absent extension of the moratorium to the valuable lands mentioned that are under ever-increasing pressure, both by the seekers and legitimate leases and squatters, what mechanism does the Minister propose to give the public some say in identifying those lands that should be preserved for the use of all versus those to be leased for private use in the areas where there are not moratorium? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to follow up with questions from my Member’s statement to the Minister of Lands, and I appreciate the Minister’s consultation with our public as part of the process to craft a recreational land management plan. I’m sure that plan will be much better because of this discussion.

Can I ask the Minister, can he say when the consultations will be complete and how long will it take to put together the draft plan for public review after that? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, this is part of the budgeting process I don’t always understand. We got the supplement in ’13-14. I don’t think we told people no in ’14-15 this year. So, I assume that if it’s going to be $19 million, it will be coming out of some other budget. So any comments on that would be appreciated.

Just for efficiency I’ll throw in one more here. The Minister knows we’ve been working since the first day of the 16th Assembly on increasing the efficiency of medical travel costs. The stat was 50 percent of medical travel patients were on the streets an hour after they arrived...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a follow-up. We know that seniors are increasing. I know that the Minister has the stats, 6 percent or something. We know that the costs are going to be there. I think that’s typically how the departments adjust their budgets when we know that those costs are going to be there. Why wouldn’t you do that in this case?

I was wondering about the frequency of incidents in the unit.