Julian Morse

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Not at this time.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so, yeah, unfortunately, I don't have the -- I can't remember the name of the report off the top of my head, but, you know, the Premier has in hand a report that was very recently done that was all about everything that needs to be done, so now he's talking about engagement. I would just note the engagement was done. I was asking about implementation of that, and, you know, the Premier had committed previously on the floor of the House to, you know, implementing that report. So that's what I was asking about is the progress we're making on engagement that's already...

Fair enough, Mr. Chair. I appreciate it. And, yeah, I certainly personally appreciate the offer of a briefing on this and actually think it would be a good idea. It's been -- I don't know if we've had a briefing on the specific subject at AOC, but it's something I'd definitely be open for. So let's perhaps have the AOC chair chat with the Minister about doing that. I'll leave that as my questions for now. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I assume this is probably the best place to be asking questions about the business plan. I just note that there's some business plan update and wanted to ask the department for -- ask the department some questions about that's.

The first one is on the negotiation mandate updates being done by 2025-2026. I've kind of -- I've said to the Minister a few times, you know, this seems like a bit of an underwhelming goal and, you know, I know there's a lot of pressure from everybody who talks about settling the land claims, getting them done, why can't we get them done...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's all my questions for this page.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, you know, one of the ways that we're able to track this sort of thing and determine for ourselves and be engaged with our constituents is to see what's being brought forward. So does the Minister or the public administrator have any plans in place to establish some kind of a plan or list a set of actions that are going to be taken and, you know, maybe a timeline for how things will go down so that staff can see, you know, what actions are being taken, how their concerns are being heard and actioned? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so, yeah, just to be crystal clear on this, have we lost these positions, or are they -- just the way that they're being funded has changed? So -- okay, Ms. Reid is over here -- sorry, Member from Great Slave seems to be confirming. But I just want to make sure that we haven't lost that capacity because certainly we -- you know, when I look at the policy and planning division description, we definitely need that going on in the department, housing being such a high priority of the Assembly. So if the Minister can just confirm we haven't lost the capacity within the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question today is for the Minister of Health and Social Services.

Mr. Speaker, last sitting Members raised a number of concerns and passed a motion regarding the health care system, and a lot of the concerns that were raised were about workplace morale among nurses, doctors, health care workers in general. And I would note that with the system sustainability unit and the new public administrator, it's not really clear if morale issues are actually being addressed by those initiatives. So can the Minister clarify for the House who is tasked with improving...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just switching gears here. Oh, thank you. I just wanted to ask about the pretty significant, almost million dollar, reduction to the policy and planning division. Can the Minister and her staff explain what those reductions entailed. Is there a reduction of capacity of that division as a result? Thank you.

Is this not to the point?