Thank you, Mr. Chair. There is work that will be done to address the core need within the communities as outlined within our budget. In all honesty, we’d need about $30 million to address our own stock at this point, within this fiscal year. Currently, we don’t have $30 million to provide for that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Within the “core need” definition, there are three aspects that are looked at, and so that is adequacy, as you stated, suitability, and the third piece is affordability. Some people will live in an adequate house that is suitable but still can’t afford to maintain that unit. That is the definition. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Currently, at this point, people pay nine cents towards the utilities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m going to have to beg to argue with the Member on that one. Affordability is defined within the national standards on core needs. Like I said, we’ve just passed a motion in the House that said we’re to work towards addressing the core need, national, and so I don’t know how I would work towards that if we changed the definition and our definition of core need does not match the national definition of core need, because then I cannot at any time address… I can’t compare apples to oranges. If you want me to do the motion and work towards addressing the core need then you...

Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. We are in agreement that we do provide some programs that maybe we shouldn’t be. That is part of the survey and trying to see, again, which programs are still relevant or not, being conscious, though, that right now, with just trying to address the amount of people that are paying more than 30 per cent of their income to the cost of living or to suitability, to core needs within the community, we are still way behind the gun. We need to be really careful when we restructure programs that we don’t try to make it too broad and that we can address the core needs...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We look at the stock within the territories and we try to make sure that the stock is actually fairly evenly distributed throughout the communities that we have. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The community survey, the community needs, will be funded as they are currently, by the funding provided by the federal government and provided by the GNWT. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Besides the public housing that we have, the things that we specialize specifically for seniors in their communities are, there are things that they can access like the emergency repair. We are really focusing on preventative maintenance with seniors. We’re actually trying to get out of the office, like one of the other Members have said and actually into their homes. We’re making it easier for them to access services. We have programs such as the SAFE program that makes sure that ramps, et cetera are done, CARE Major that they can come and get repairs up to $100,000, such as roofs, ramps...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, within this current budget, we have committed to setting up three LHOs within the community so we won’t be taking on any more within this current budget. We are more than happy to meet with the communities and see what we can do to best meet their needs. Again, like I had said before, we will be examining other communities within each fiscal budget coming up. The goal is to have LHOs in all communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. within the affordability, if a person has a suitable house and adequate house in that the roof doesn’t leak and they have the proper amount of bedrooms, affordability can still become an issue if they are making, for example, making $10.50 an hour, and there’s no other units within the community, so although they have enough bedrooms and the roof doesn’t leak, they are in a unit that they have no option to be in, but they can’t really financially afford to be in. Thank you, Mr. Chair.