Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Premier McLeod.

Thank you, Premier McLeod. Mr. Yakeleya, you’re asking questions on page 4-25. Page 4-22, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, information item, implementation, active positions. Any questions?

I’ll be coming back to the Auditor General report here later on in this budget process.

My next question has to do with medical equipment. In the line entry here we have as medical equipment under $50,000. There seems to be a slight increase. However, it is well known that we have, especially at the territorial hospital, a number of large pieces of equipment that are nearing their lifecycles. A lot of this major equipment was purchases in the late ‘90s, early 2000’s. Some of this equipment is now entering 12 years of lifecycle and needs to be looked at. I’m speaking specifically to things like...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Beaulieu.

Page 2-17, Executive, activity summary, Ministers’ offices, operations expenditure summary, $2.970 million.

Thank you, Premier McLeod. Do you have any witnesses you wish to bring into the Chamber?

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger, Mr. Kalgutkar, Mr. Aumond. Welcome back to the House. We are on Finance. I am opening the floor to general comments. I have Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Madam Chair. My questions surround the topic of emergency shelters. I’m hoping the Minister of Justice is also listening to these questions. The Member for Yellowknife Centre brought up in general comments yesterday the issue of the Yellowknife downtown emergency shelter. He went into great lengths to talk about the concerns that the citizens around the shelter area have with respect to how things are being run. The fact that there is still consumption of alcohol happening, delinquency, no solutions being offered. If they are, they are being remiss in doing so.

The Member used a term...

Committee, I would like to have you return to page 8-7, Health and Social Services, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $349.926 million. Committee agree?

Thank you, committee. I’ll turn over to page 2-7. We’ll be deferring that until consideration of detail. If I can get you to turn to page 2-8, Executive, information item, infrastructure investment summary. Any questions?