Kevin O'Reilly

No, thanks for that. And, yeah, for anyone who's listening or reads this, I really encourage them to look at the return on social investment study that was done. There's come great quotes in there from clients that have been assisted and turned their lives around and so on. And I guess it'll be one more matter for the transition report. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks. So what budget line here reflects that additional funding in you know, that the staffing levels are flat? So did someone else another position was cut or something to make way for this new office; what happened? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Okay, no, thanks for that. I want to go on to integrated case management. And I know that this was the program where they had that return on investment work. And I remarked earlier about how I thought that was a really good study and certainly showed the value of this. But where are we at with expanding this beyond Yellowknife? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, no thanks. I guess I just kind of remember, I think it was within health and social services maybe even maybe it was actually this department that did a return on social investment evaluation for the integrated or no, integrated case management. It was actually a really good study, and I want to compliment the department for having done that. And I'm not talking about it in the context of this but that kind of approach, I think, should be applied to victim services and doing a bit more of a review at some point soon because you're going to need a case to take to the FMB to get more...

Thanks, Madam Chair. The rental office here oh sorry, next one.

No, thanks for that answer. Is there any money in this budget for further positions or, you know, I don't know, some regions may want to take a regional approach; I don't know. But is there any additional funding in this budget for further agreements/contributions, to allow for this service to be extended? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Okay, thanks, Madam Chair. So basically it sounds like it's negotiated on an annual basis and then shows up in the main estimates and would include things like collective agreement increases, if there's a desire of change in service levels, in individual communities and so on. Is that the case, and how much input or influence do we really have on this? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Okay, thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I guess one of the concerns I'm getting is these kind of batches of federal funding is what happens to the service when the funding ends? Because, you know, you create expectations, draws; you know, people begin to rely on that service and then all of a sudden the federal funding ends and then are we actually going to fund this stuff ourselves. That's, I guess, what I ask. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks. I don't know, is any of this public in terms of what the percentage what's the term of the collective agreement? I'm just wondering is this going to continue to increase over time, or is this like a onetime thing; how's that going to play out? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I just want to ask some questions about victim services. This is something I raised in the last Assembly and the thenMinister agreed to do a review of victim services, and I think it actually ended up resulting in an increase in funding, which was one of my objectives. But it looks like there's some federal funding that's coming in because, on page 300, victim assistance support projects is going from well, it went from 20222023 Main Estimates from $945,000 to over $2 million. So can someone explain what the extra $2 million is for? I'll start there. Thanks, Madam...