Rocky Simpson

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.

Thank you, Ms. Cleveland. I will now open the floor to general comments on Bill 39.

Is the committee agreed that there are no general comments? Can we proceed to a clausebyclause review of the bill?

Thank you, committee. Oh, Mr. O'Reilly.

Can we proceed to a clausebyclause review of the bill?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, access to healthcare professionals, family diagnosis and treatment is a paramount to our residents.

Mr. Speaker, will the Minister of Health confirm if her department is working on a health recruitment and retention action plan and will it identify why it is that recruitment of professional healthcare workers is proving difficult in the North? Thank you.

SergeantatArms, please escort the witnesses into the Chamber.

Minister, please introduce your witnesses.

Thank you, committee. We will continue with the departmental summary for Executive and Indigenous Affairs on page 109. And Indigenous Affairs, operations expenditures, total department, 20222023 Main Estimates, $22,114,000. Does committee agree?

I will now turn to the chair of the Standing Committee on Social Development, the committee that reviewed the bill, for any opening comments on Bill 41. Ms. Cleveland.