Daryl Dolynny

Can the Minister of Health and Social Services also indicate what criteria are used by medical travel when making a decision to abort a mission for highway air ambulance patient extraction?

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. I believe your comment was noted by that department. Thank you. Page 8-18, Health and Social Services, activity summary, program delivery support, grants and contributions, contributions. Are there any questions?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. We’re just circulating the motion.

To the motion. The motion is in order.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the ability to present this motion today to Committee of the Whole. I don’t want to spend a lot of time reviewing a lot of the items that were covered today. There was a lot of passion in this House with respect to midwifery. I do want to say, for the record, that I’ve had a long and promising affair, I guess, with midwifery in a way that most people don’t have. I mean that in the kindest sense. It’s late at night.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise as a follow-up to my Member’s statement earlier today, which put into light last week’s devastating deadly highway crash near Fort Providence. However, before I proceed, I wish to once again indicate our prayers to all families involved.

I realize there is still an RCMP investigation involved with this. However, my questions today do not deal with this accident, but more importantly deal with the level of first responder care, patient immobilization, dispatch, medical support and transport.

Of course, I realize that there are really three Ministers involved with...

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. I’ll just give the Minister a chance to find it in the briefing. Minister Beaulieu.

Page 8-28, Health and Social Services, activity summary, supplementary health programs, grants and contributions, contributions, $16.259 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the response. It sounds like we are working towards that end goal. For the record, are we able to say with a degree of confidence that all of the performance agreements with the health authorities will be in place 100 percent within this fiscal year? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, welcome to the Minister and the health team here.

I’ve got two broad topics within the area of the directorate here. I’ll start with the first one here. Just to set the lay of the land to the question, we’ve got three health boards that have been dissolved over the years that are run by public administrators. That’s Stanton, Hay River and Inuvik. What’s interesting is that through our budget dialogues, the back and forth that I have seen in the last 16 months, there have been many areas where we talked about barriers to accountability when it comes to the delivery...