David Krutko

Yes, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the total budget for the department is $122 million. Out of that, the GNWT allocation is $38 million, or 36.8. So the majority of those dollars that we do operate under comes through our arrangement with CMHC and federal contributions for different program allocations. It is hinging, and I think that we’re not the only department which is experiencing this uncertainty, because other arrangements were made before the election and Northern Strategy funding, we’re looking at the Mackenzie social impact funding. A lot of funding dollars were announced previous...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As soon as you approve my budget, I’ll get the orders out right away.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, we do what we call MNIs in communities, which are major and minor repairs to most of our public stock. It is where a large portion of this is to basically do repairs to keep our houses in certain conditions to make sure that they are not falling below certain standards. So those are basically repair programs that are done annually by the housing authority. The money has been identified for all of the communities to do repairs on their housing stock. Thank you.

The Minister of Health can take the question.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, a lot has changed since last August. We have to admit that there has been a change from the federal government. We are looking at allocating funding at the front end, but the decision was made to fund it at the back end, which changed the amounts we were going to receive from the federal government. With regard to the negotiations or the meetings that have been held between Fred and his people and people in CMHC and ATCO, we were able to bring down the cost of a lot of these units and be able to not have to expend as much money at the back end to do the...

I just want to make a comment in regards to the maintenance management systems. I believe that we have to leave it at the community level. It has to be left at the local authorities and the maintenance staff to be able to oversee that program because it’s the only program that we have in place that really catalogues exactly what work is being done, what’s being expended, and what has to be done in the future. I think for us to centralize it to Yellowknife or wherever else is going to take away the whole authority that we give to our local housing authorities to deliver housing on our behalf...

Yes, it’s 118.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, as you know, we are revising our power by allocation. Right now, we have some 14 programs we do deliver. We are trying to consolidate them down to five areas. Because of the changing delivery of our programs, we are hoping it is more user-friendly and people would be able to have better access. In regards to the $4.888 million, it is application based and people will have to come forward, fill out the applications and have it approved based on the regional and community allocations. That is the process we presently use. Again, we are hoping with this...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The proposal we’ve seen so far to date is it's $900 a month.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, like I mentioned earlier, there has been a committee struck made up of people from the Department of Executive. Also we have people who are responsible for strategic planning, and my department will also be involved. We are trying to get a view for the public with regard to where we are going with our mandate, but, more importantly, get input from the stakeholders we have out there and also from the local housing authorities and also with regard to the people here in this Legislature to ensure that the mandate we have put forward is the right direction we...