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Thank you, Madam Chair. The total prior year GNWT investment in the EMR project has been $4.175 million, with continued investment of $250,000 in 2012; $1 million in 2013; $774,000 in 2014; for a total of $6.19 million of capital investment. Also, there will be $2.175 million of the initial $4.175 million occurred in previous EMR investment with $2 million carry-over to the current EMR project. Therefore, the current project budget reflects $8 million total, $2 million carry-over, $250,000 in 2012-13, $1.002 million in 2013-14. Again, the $774,000 in ‘14-15, up to $3.946 million of Infoway...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If we were to station one nurse in Tsiigehtchic, I would assume that just the cost of the salary would be approximately $120,000 with all the benefits and everything, but we would not be able to station just one nurse in Tsiigehtchic.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The plan for the Stanton Hospital is upgrades and renovations.
Mr. Speaker, probably more success than failure or we would have probably quit funding it after the three-year pilot. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The department will do an evaluation of this fiscal year, but it’s not going to wait until the very end of the fiscal year to do an evaluation. We’ll evaluate as we go along to see if some of those programs, like I had indicated earlier, a navigator service to see if there are individuals in there that can find employment or find education and so on. Once that evaluation is done, we still have time prior to the next budget review of main estimates and the finalization of budgets for the 2013-14 budget year which will happen, I guess, this coming January. That will be...
Mr. Speaker, like I indicated, we will fund it for the rest of this fiscal year. That still gives us an opportunity to evaluate and get some funding into the shelter, if that is the decision we make beyond March 31, 2013.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Department of Health and Social Services, through the YK Health and Social Services Authority, is contributing their $125,000, plus are now contributing the share that used to be contributed in a three-year pilot project by BHP for $50,000, for a total of $175,000. That money will run to the end of the 2012-13 fiscal year, at which point we will re-examine our position. Thank you.
Laid out in the Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan was the attempt to try to remove the stigma of mental health so that individuals are able to work freely with people who are afflicted with mental health issues. It’s a very, very difficult area.
As the Member indicated, you can’t just, you know, if somebody gets hurt, a physical injury, people know what to do. There’s a certain process. You get the person into the hospital. Mental health cases are different.
We are trying to train people. We are trying to set up a system where individuals are able to identify mental health. We’re trying...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Mental Health First Aid course is something that our department is offering to professionals from the regions and communities, that they go back to their communities to put on workshops on mental health that would be open to the citizens, teachers, anybody that wishes to learn more about mental health issues at the community or regional levels.
Yes, our department does support that type of philosophy. Thank you.