Lesa Semmler

I don't know if we consider it -- it's a satellite because their proximity to Hay River so if you want to consider it a -- but I don't -- the services we currently have, that would be considered one.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, once they -- once the department has done all of the checks and balances and then I meet with them and it falls within line with whatever that we have approved through our process, then -- and once I get the recommendation that everything has been checked and balanced, and then I approve it, and then the finance team does do the monitoring of that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, because it's on a basis where people are utilizing supplies, they're utilizing medication, the cost of medication, you know, their prescription changes. They've left -- clients have left. New clients have come to the territories. People migrate from this program into the seniors' benefit program. So there's a lot of different moving pieces to this. So that is not something that we can say that we have offhand. Thank you.

If I may get a clarification, are you just speaking specifically in this -- in the public health section? Okay. If I may, I'll pass it on to the deputy minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will have to get back to the Member. We don't have that detail from that year in our budget stuff. So we will have to be -- we'll have to get back to committee on where that funding came from and why it's changed in the future budgets. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. What I can do right now is I will -- what I can say right now is is that we are doing a review of our model of care throughout our community health centres, and I've also asked them to look at how we are supporting those communities, those health cabin communities in some of those small communities and then ensuring that they're getting -- they're getting some care. But at this time right now, that -- during that review, you know, one of the things that I've always said in this House is that we need to make sure that our most vulnerable people, and especially in our small...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that is what exactly is going to be happening right now between the department and NTHSSA. They go back and forth and reconcile where -- like, you'll see, like if you look at health and social programs, so the allocation for the $370 million to go for health and social programs, they will have a detail between the department finance and the NTHSSA's finance to reconcile where they're spending those dollars within this department. And so when you go through the future sections that there's every section that they have, they have details and that comes to us, and...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we are halfway through this year, so some of the changes that, you know, that also have been taken on, like I said, the product listing agreements -- and the ADM can speak more in detail to some of those things that have happened behind -- that are ongoing alongside that helps to bring down these costs. But right now where we are is we're halfway through this year and so, you know, we're not going to know the full outcome and being able to answer all of the Member's questions until we actually have a full year of going through this and then be able to analyze...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, during -- the word we don't like to use -- COVID, there were a lot of areas within our systems that we -- like, that we did not have -- that we needed to look at after going through what we had to go through and in detail, I can pass it on to the deputy minister to kind of give some little bit more in depth on what is happening in that area now, if I may, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, for that detail, I will go to the ADM.