Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Ms. Mathison. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Ms. DeLancey. Moving on with questions I have Mr. Bromley.

Thank you. Page 8-28, Health and Social Services, activity summary. Mr. Hawkins.

Great, thank you. I appreciate the deputy minister’s thorough reply there. It’s good to hear that we’re definitely moving along in this area. So the numbers I did receive, I believe my math is okay, $10.3 million that we’ve spent this far; $4.1 million was federal money. We see in the budget, and again I do appreciate leniency, we’re talking about something further on in our activity summary at $489,000. Does the department have a number in mind as to what the annual cost or estimated costs are going to be at the end of the four-year so-called rollout? So something that we can maybe anticipate...

Thank you. We will just take a short recess and come right back. Thank you.

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Page 8-18, Health and Social Services, activity summary, program delivery support, grants and contributions. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Ms. DeLancey. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Madam Chair. My questions will be on EMR, so that gives the Minister a chance to find the queue in the page.

One of the five priorities of the 17th Legislative Assembly was to ensure fair, reasonable and sustainable health care systems. EMR was not directly mentioned in our original priorities, but it was implied as something we were going to invest in for our future. Currently, Yellowknife and Hay River are fully operational EMRs, and we know that the Department of Health and Social Services has received territorial funding for this as well as federal funding through I believe it’s...

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Ms. DeLancey.

Question is being called.

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