Rocky Simpson

Thank you, Minister, and thanks to your witnesses. SergeantatArms, please escort the witnesses from the Chamber.

Committee, we will move on.

Committee, we have agreed to consider Committee Report 2619(2): Standing Committee on Social Development Report on the Child and Family Services Act Lifting NWT Children, Youth and Families: An All of Territory Approach to Keeping Families Together.

I will go to the chair of the Standing Committee on Social Development for any opening comments. Ms. Cleveland.

I will now call Committee of the Whole to order. What is the wish of committee, Mr. O'Reilly?

Clauses 11 to 15, does the committee agree.

Thank you, committee. We will continue with the departmental summary for Industry, Tourism and Investment on page 203.

Industry, Tourism and Investment, operations expenditures, total department, 20222023 Main Estimates, $59,625,000. Does committee agree?

Committee, to the bill as a whole, does the committee agree that Bill 41: Justice Administration Statutes Amendment Act, is now ready for third reading?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

The Standing Committee determined that the description of the creation and functioning of the quality assurance Advisory Committees and assurance bodies in the Post-Secondary Education Act is unclear.

When the PSE Act was created as Bill 48 in the 18th Assembly, our predecessor Standing Committee on Social Development made the following observations regarding Advisory Committees in its report on the Bill:,

That Bill 48 was unclear about the role of the Advisory Committees in the quality assurance process, as was the distinction between the work of an advisory committee and...

Please turn to page 1 of the bill. Clauses 1 to 5, does the committee agree?

Thank you for pointing that out, Mr. O'Reilly. I was trying to just getting trying to get something for Hay River. Thank you.

Finance, operations expenditures, total department, 20222023 Main Estimates, $335,239,000. Does committee agree?

Clause 2, does the committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, will the Minister of Health confirm what options are available to residents outside Yellowknife who cannot access timely medical services in their home community due to physician or staff shortages? Does Stanton have sufficient staff and beds available to take on patients from other communities? Thank you.