Julie Green

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to ask the deputy minister to respond.

Yes, I anticipate this conversation will take place between Indigenous Services Canada and the Indigenous governments directly, and we may or may not have a seat at the table.

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the office, I believe, is fully staffed or almost fully staffed at this point. And they have they have been looking, as I think I mentioned earlier, at cost containment. And so one thing that they've looked at as an example of that is reciprocal billing. It turns out that we were not issuing all the invoices that we could to other jurisdictions for caring for their residents and so that's something that we have paid more attention to in order to ensure that we're getting all the revenue that is properly owed to us.

Another example is going into product...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The breakdown is NT there is no Yellowknife health authority. Yellowknife is part of the NWT Health and Social Services Authority. The total amount to NTHSSA is $236,100,000. Hay River Health and Social Services Authority $25,282,000. TCSA, $14,574,000. Physician maternity/paternity leave $250,000. Collective kitchens $188,000. Mental health association bilateral allocation for training and counselling $139,000. Referred laboratory allocation $872,000. Incremental recruitment bonus $204,000. Mental health first aid and assist training $100,000. CHIRPP coordinator...

So that number, the $21 million some odd number for home care and support services oh sorry, the $46 million for longterm care and supported living is what is allocated to the health authorities for use for home and continuing care. And the breakdown of that is NTHSSA has $33,819,000 of that. Hay River has $6,002,000. And TCSA has $3,905,000. But how they allocate that, like NTHSSA is a big entity. It's got the Beaufort Delta, the Sahtu, the Deh Cho, Yellowknife, South Slave. So how it's allocated among those entities is part of the NTHSSA budget. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the question from the Member, and I'm sure she's aware that this program is a federal government program from Indigenous Services Canada. They're the ones who decide on who gets medical travel or what conditions that require medical travel. That is not something that I have any say in. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to the Member for her comment.

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I think the Member is talking about employer benefits. So the Government of Canada would have employer benefits for its staff. The GNWT has employer benefits for its staff. NIHB provides benefits to Indigenous people who are First Nations and Inuit. Metis health benefits are specifically for Metis beneficiaries. And then the rest of the population are just covered either covered by the basic hospital and physician services, which are provided free of charge to everyone or, in some cases, they don't have benefits at all. We know that there are at least...

Yes. I'm not sure where the money's going to come from. I don't think it'll come from the new tailored agreements. Tailored bilateral agreements, none of them speak to people who need supported living unless they're elderly and they need longterm care. So there's a question there about whether we can find an appropriate pot of funding from the federal government or whether we will be looking for an increase in the budget from the GNWT. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. There is no dashboard available that is equivalent to the kind that was maintained during COVID. But there is interest in launching one. Thank you.