Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Yes—. We are still looking at 249, contributions. There is tourism diversification program. There’s a reduction from 201516, and can the Minister or staff explain the reduction? It appears in mains. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that commitment from the Minister, and it’s something that I’ll certainly be watching very carefully because I’m sure we all want to work towards improving our housing and getting it out of core need. As new federal dollars come in, we shouldn’t be withdrawing our funding as well or during that period as well. Thanks, Mr. Chair. It’s more of a comment.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. If it’s not core funding, what is the funding actually for? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I know that we’ve started to talk a little bit about RCMP housing. I wanted to ask, so somewhere in the budget for this year, though, there must be some resources devoted to actually building or managing the construction of RCMP housing in 201617. Would that be right? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Yes, thanks Mr. Chair. I’m not sure how to approach this because I’ve asked, and now this will be third time I’ve asked for information to be compiled about staffing changes that are presented in the budget and we still don’t have it. We’ve just finished the Housing Corp. In any event, I’ve asked twice now different Ministers, the Finance Minister, the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, if we could get this information consolidated. I believe it’s impeding my ability as an MLA to be able to review the budget. I asked over 10 days ago now, I believe, for this information, I still...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. No more questions.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the explanation. How much of that $2.2 million is actual federal funding? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

I think I’ll pass for now, Mr. Chair, because I’ve got some other things I’d like to explore on this page. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Today we haven’t had the pleasure of hearing from the Minister of Health and Social Services, so I have a couple of questions for him. I understand that from previous discussions we’ve had here in the House that there’s a couple of midwifery consultants that have been hired to do some work to help design the territorial system. Can the Minister tell us when the contracts for those two individuals finish? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

No thanks, Mr. Chair, and I appreciate the commitment of the Minister to follow up with NFTI and try to find a way to streamline or improve support for agriculture. Thanks, Mr. Chair.