Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to confirm that the Member is talking about the mental health and addictions line that’s $450,000, just because there are multiple lines here where it falls under.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. National Public Service Week is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions and accomplishments of the public service employees across Canada. Here in the Northwest Territories we have an engaged and highly motivated public service that provides quality programs and services for our residents. Our employees’ commitment to service and dedication to their communities are an important part of what makes the GNWT a great place to work and what makes the NWT a great place to live. It’s no secret that these are challenging economic times, Mr. Speaker. In the face of these...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we got permission from the last government to do a one-time transfer from the midwifery program in the Beaufort Delta to use those dollars to do our portion of the Organ and Tissue Donation Registry in Alberta, so it’s one time.

We’ll do that.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, if the Member can maybe help me understand the question a little bit. What does she mean by, you know, default or encouraged, by us or by their own providers or by their own government?

Yes, absolutely, and for that detail, I will go to the deputy minister, but just related to the last question, as I have indicated previously, there will be a bunch of functions coming out of the department, functions that are providing sort of core servicetype services. These are going to be in the authority rather than the department. The department is going to be a ministry. We are going to phase in some of those functions from out of the department into the authority. We anticipate that phasein is going to take about two years, but as far as monitoring evaluation, I will go to the deputy.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we can share some of the outputs right now, actually, as far as, like, how many people attended, some of the results from the satisfaction surveys, those types of things. It’s the deeper sort of evaluation that the deputy was talking about that we’re developing the evaluation framework now. That one is going to take a little bit more time, but I’m happy to provide the Members with some of the more immediate output stuff. I can provide that to committee. I probably just need a couple of days to get it sort of put together in a format that will be good.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as I indicated, the mains last year were $13,881,000. We are slightly down based on some of the other driving factors in this area, some actuals, but the reason you’ll see the revised main estimates up a little higher is every year at some we end up having to come forward with a supp based on the pension top up that is required by the Hay River Health and Social Services in order to keep their pension viable. We don’t know what that cost is going to be, so we don’t build it into our mains. We come back by way of supp. We’ve already brought one supp to this...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we’re looking at coming forward with some amendments of the Vital Statistics Act that will allow us to include Aboriginal names and appropriate fonts within birth certificates and other documents within the Northwest Territories. We’ve done some early assessment, but we don’t have a full costing of that change at this point. When we have better information on the costing, we will certainly share that with committee and the Member.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, these changes came into place during the last main estimates process. What we were trying to do is to align how we report all of our finances within our authorities to be consistent with CIHI reporting. Ambulatory care is one of the areas that we were required to report on, but we didn’t always align those financially. They were all spread out in different areas. Last main estimates, we’ve brought everything in line; all the authorities report on the same criteria, and the department now reports to the same criteria to be compliant with CIHI and a few of the...