Lesa Semmler

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sorry, the $3.055 million is the community wellness and addiction recovery fund, the one that I keep kind of talking about that Indigenous governments can apply on. And that is separate from the mental wellness and addiction recovery capacity building fund  or no, sorry, the mental wellness and addiction recovery fund. In the one here is, 125, is used for the youth addiction prevention and youth detox model.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that is something that I cannot commit to in the House here, to creating a policy. As I mentioned yesterday, we spoke on many different areas. Within the medical travel policy, there are areas where there are gaps but medical travel like, according to our policy it is to help patients travel to an insured service. And that doesn't you know, and so if somebody is away then that's not part of medical travel. And the information and I will share that information with all Members of this House and that you can share them on your own social media, and with...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this is like I said, I'm sorry I can't give you a specific date or time. There are nurses that are going through this and being supported are different levels of where they are. And, you know, it can take up to one to two years for that specialized to be independent in this area. You know, we want to make sure that they have all the training that they need to be independent. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So going back to the COVID endemic funding. So when that sunseted, we also and I announced remember, I did that long list of all of the different funding pots that we just recently so the shared health priorities that we got funding from Health Canada for activities under the new bilateral agreement and the Working Together to Improve Health Care for Canadians, which includes family health services, health workforce and mental wellness, substance abuse, that was an increase of $4.382 million to this budget. There was an increase with the collective agreement. So that...

Thank you. This budget has $1.417 million, and that would be for the two THARP programs. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, every resident who travels outside the territories on their own you know, if you were to end up in the hospital and get sick or anything, that is not the responsibility of the GNWT to bring them back. There is information on the NTHSSA website for travelling out information for travelling outside the Northwest Territories. It does speak to even travelling within Canada, that people should you know, if they are travelling that they should make sure that they look at what insurances that they have, if they need additional insurances when travelling. Some...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. You know, for myself, I was a labour and delivery nurse, so I don't understand why nobody wants to be a labour and delivery nurse, so. But, you know, for the most part I know even when I was a manager trying to convince some nurses to go and train to be a labour and delivery nurse it's a specialty. It's just like any other thing people want to do. And, you know, and I think for a long time here once we one of the issues that we know that within the current obstetrics where we I mean, it's not a secret that there was many vacancies over COVID, and then that's when, you...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, under this area, what the the bigger piece of the deduction was the COVID endemic funding. So the sunsetting of this funding for the transition from COVID19 to pandemic to endemic. So that's what a lot of that money is that's changed. So that's gone. There is the labour market supplement for NTHSSA and TCSA, sunsetting of the onetime funding approved to support recruitment and retention of health care professionals, and the labour market supplement HRHSSA sunset of onetime funding approved to support recruitment and retention of health professionals. Thank you...

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I hear the Member. And, you know, I'll echo what I've said is, you know, what we are funded for and our core programs and services and what we provide to the Northwest Territories, the things that are not covered in other territories and provinces that we provide over the years that we have just  you know, we have decided as a government, and many governments up until now, that this is something that we need to provide to our residents is why we are in the shape where we are. And every new thing that we ask for and we want to do that's not a core...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, you know, when regions you know, depending on who is reaching out for those services in the different regions, for us, you know, we are working on the recruitment portion of it. But if there independent Indigenous organizations that want to access those funding, the boards that want to access those funding, you know, they can be way more strategic on how they're providing services in their regions. They're more flexible in how they can hire people. So right now what I can all I can really say is that the department is preparing a review of the speech and...