Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I wasn’t clear on this. The review portion of the ISDM is complete. Right now the doctor that we have hired is doing the clinical services plan to develop or to upgrade or amend, I guess, the Integrated Service Delivery Model.

We can do that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have some details here that I would maybe have the deputy minister just read the cost detail for the other areas like the revenues that come in to pay for medical travel and also the THSSI, I suppose.

I don’t have the daily cost of the individuals to stay at Vital Abel, but I can easily get that information for the Member.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess for clarification, I just want to explain what it is that we’re doing with Healthy Families and the internal discussions we’re having for expansion. The Healthy Families have been expanding to all of the regions. I believe we have a program in every region. Just expanding now into the Sahtu, and then that would place us into all of the regions.

The next plan for expansion, I guess contingent upon getting the funding through the business planning process, is to expand to the larger communities in the regions that don’t have a Healthy Families program. It is very...

I will commit to bringing our plan to the committee. As soon as we receive our plan on the clinical services for the communities, I will bring the plan to the committee.

Mr. Speaker, each time there’s an opportunity for the federal government to participate in any of our medical health services, we always take the opportunity to try to work with them. Yes, I can discuss this with our federal counterparts. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We are going to look at actuals on all of the medevac flights as we roll out the new RFP. The new request for proposals will have that type of information to support the RFP so that individuals who are bidding on the contract and companies that are bidding on the contract will know what is required of them, where the majority of the flights will be originating from. Definitely, if there is the exploration activity in the Sahtu, it nets a lot of additional medevac flights out of the Sahtu, then that would form part of the RFP and that would be considered in the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’re not anticipating any increase in the budget. It just would be a reallocation of the same money.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is an agreement for hospital and physician services to status Indian and Inuit. We would be pleased to provide a briefing note to the Member or committee.