Tom Beaulieu

Just to make it simple, I think one of the key things is developing midwifery regulations. The thing with it is to ensure that the model would work effectively and would be beneficial to the region. Once the health centre is built, Hay River is going to be like a small regional operation as opposed to just a community operation like it is in Fort Smith. That is why we are rolling it out in that fashion. The next step after that would be a larger regional operation, or people grabbing midwife services in Inuvik would be coming from further away, so the visits are different and the care is...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The whole issue of midwifery, if we put midwives on the ground, we will do it without working with physicians and doctors that are in place now. We will do it without community consultation. We will do it without educational standards for midwives. We will do it without having territorial standards for midwives. These are the things that we want to put in place before we proceed.

We’re going to get the money on April 1st. We think that, as people working in the system, developing standards in education, setting up other standards territorial-wide, and working with the...

We will provide a detailed response. I will ask the director of finance to do that.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I will have Deputy Minister DeLancey run through the process and come down to when we can produce some results.

Thank you, Madam Chair. To read the fine print I have to remove my glasses. The $15.588 million, I could give the breakdown of the authorities first of all. Starting with Beaufort, $3.3 million, roughly; Deh Cho, $1.4 million; Fort Smith, $1.4 million; Hay River, $2.6 million; Sahtu, $1.2 million; Stanton, $2.6 million; Tlicho, $900,000; YK, $2 million. This is for executive, corporate board trustees, planning and development, quality assurance, risk management, internal audit, finance, human resource system support, communications, material management and volunteer services.

Thank you. We will attempt to get to that review when we’ve completed the other reviews that are in the books now. We’re hoping that we’re able to complete the essential reviews that we had talked about on the other items that we’ve discussed here today. So if we’ve completed those reviews, then we will begin this review. I’m not sure that I can commit to completing a review within the next two and a half years, but we will attempt to do that.

I’m not sure I would commit to doing an inquiry, but I think we could check out, to keep it simple, to determine whether or not it’s our responsibility to go on to the highways through the Medical Travel Policy, medical travel to be able to go on the highway and get people through that service or if we’re using the system where we are trying to enhance certain ground ambulance services and key strategic communities throughout the North. I’m not sure if I could call for a public inquiry, but I could get that information and find out how this process works and get back to the Members.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We’re talking about 8-17, the health services administration division. I just want to get clarification because I’m not clear on what page we’re on here.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would have the deputy minister provide response to that. Thank you.

We’re just going to quickly add up the number here. I think it is $6.5 million.