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Thanks, Madam Chair. I have one more question here and it has to do with the Medical Travel Policy. It seems we have been amending this policy for quite some time. I know the department has been working very hard on it and has been doing a lot of consultation and investigation and so on. I would like an update on where that’s at. The other half of this question is once we do put a new policy into place, is it going to create some efficiencies and save us some money or, because it’s a new policy, is it going to expand our costs and are we expecting an increase in medical travel due to the...
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a couple of questions here. The first one has to do with the Child and Family Services Act. There are amendments coming forward for this legislation, from what I understand. I’d like to know from the Minister if the amendments to this piece of legislation are going to require extra expenditures, and if so, where are they in this budget?
I figured it depended on the act. Probably the one that’s going to be the most expensive is the Health Information Act. I would like to know where that’s reflected in this budget. Thank you.
So I guess that means that Tuk was added in this current budget year, not in ’15-16. Okay. So we are not increasing the number of communities for Healthy Family Programs in ’15-16? That would be my last question for confirmation. Thank you.
I’ll try to remember when we get there what section that was. Mr. Dolynny talked a bit about the governance and I had the same question why there doesn’t seem to be any indication in the budget that we’re going to be saving some money in terms of the amalgamation of health authorities into one. I would have thought there would have been some efficiencies and some savings due to economies of scale. I can appreciate the Minister’s remark that health costs keep going up. Absolutely they do. But, I guess, can we anticipate, then, that once this amalgamated system is in place, and I would think...
Thanks. I guess best practices across our country and the world are not necessarily what work in the North. I would suggest that we’d have an awful lot of people in small communities who are not going to get a heck of a lot of benefit out of this campaign and I would urge the department to reconsider.
My last question has to do with the Healthy Family Program. I think it should go on this page, not the next page because I note the next page is just for the Tlicho Government. Are we increasing the number of communities that will have a Healthy Family Program in the ’15-16 year? Thank you.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a number of questions on this section. As the Minister mentioned yesterday, this department has changed considerably in the way it’s laid out, so if I bring up something on the wrong page, please, whoever, let me know and I’ll put it on the right page when we get there.
This section, if I read the text right, includes health services administration in Inuvik. I’d like to start by asking the Minister, when we talked about business plans there was a concern, and there’s been a concern for a number of years, but we talked about, basically, health card fraud and that...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are addressed to the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation. I’d like to ask the Minister some questions about the Rent Supplement Program. It’s been about two years now, I think, since the program was put into place. At the time that the Minister advised committee of the program, I do believe that he said there was going to be an evaluation at some point.
So, first of all I’d like to ask the Minister, what kind of success does the Housing Corporation attribute to this program? What kind of uptake has there been from people that are...
Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a number of issues. There always are a huge number of issues with this department and most are comments. I don’t need the Minister to respond. I will try and ask my questions when I get to the page on detail.
I want to start off with the issue of continuing care. We did get a report from the department, from the Minister, but it did not commit to an action plan, and that’s a concern for me. There doesn’t seem to be, at least not that we’ve seen on paper, a cohesive, coordinated effort towards care for our seniors. From what I can gather, the mentality seems to be...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thanks to the Minister. Yes, affordability in Yellowknife is the major issue in housing and in my community. At this point, I looked at the NWT Housing Corp website. There’s no indication that this program will end.
So I’d like to know from the Minister, it’s been two years, what are the intentions of the Housing Corp? How long will this program continue? Do they intend to continue it and for how long? Thank you.