Daryl Dolynny

No further questions.

I will take that as a yes from the Minister. Thank you. I have no further questions.

I do appreciate that response. My next series of questions with this page deal with a lot of facility upgrades and renovations within a number of communities. My question is, from a standpoint of a user, or basically, a health professional, as we are all aware, a number of our health professionals do travel and do work in various communities, whether you’re a nurse or in any type of health capacity. Do these facilities, when we’re looking at doing these retrofits, these replacements, is there a common theme on trying to create some universality in the design so that there’s a familiarity when...

From what I can gather, a portion of that lot was decommissioned or under remediation, and that amount of money for that demolition will be included in the whole component cost of that project as we move forward for capital depreciation and amortization.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 64-17(3), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2013-2014, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.

This could be a long afternoon. I guess the question is: What have we spent to date on EMR initiatives from this government?

I appreciate the Minister’s detailed numbers here. The question I have here with, I guess, fair market value for what I believe is a Class A space building. Going rate within the territory capital is in the $450 per square foot range. How is the Minister and department coming in at substantially lower, almost 25 percent below what Class A grade per square foot is being done in today’s market?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Committee, we’re on page 6-4, Health and Social Services, activity summary, health services programs, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, $31.181 million. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Welcome to the Minister and deputy minister and team. I’m going to start my questions under the reference of electronic medical records. This is something that I know people, residents, people in health professions have known about for a very long time. This is nothing new, other than the fact that we continue hearing about EMR initiatives with the department and have done so for many, many years. In fact, we’ve gone to the extent of getting health-specific privacy-type legislation already and getting that in place to prepare the Northwest Territories for EMR. Can the...

Thank you. I do appreciate the Minister for clarification here. I’ll leave it at that, Madam Chair, and let other colleagues dial in. Thank you.