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Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 11)

Well, it's my understanding that some of these reconciliations and costs, in other words knowing exactly what it costs and then submission of the final portion of our application to get some money back from Canada, there will be an assessment and accounting of those costs. So is the Minister saying that it's fully been costed out or costed, paid for, and reconciled and submitted for the transparency of our public accounts, or is it still being worked on? I'm asking when can that when would that be available? Thank you.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 11)

Okay. So these are permanent moving forward positions, and the Minister said she'd get back to us with respect to if they're currently staffed or not staffed in that sense.

The other aspect of questioning here is if we're staffing nine new positions, that's great. That said, how many have been requested? And I assume these are the nine that are proved moving forward. So how many in total have been requested? And obviously the difference is the number that are unfunded or not being funded. Thank you.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 11)

Thank you. So just to be clear, whether just for me or potentially others, this $24 million is anticipated or sorry, is going to be used for the cost to fire fighting the fire, but the money received to date isn't applied directly to that overall cost?

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 11)

It's okay. No, thank you, I think I understood it now. It's this $841,000 is intended to pay our 48 percent of the overall funding for that fiscal year for the nine new members. And I'm seeing a nod. That's fine, okay.

That said, are these permanent positions, just to clarify moving forward? Thank you.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 11)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I see that there's $24 million plus earmarked for the fire suppression. This is supplementary funding. Is the so this is on top of what's also been provided earlier. Can the Minister start the this round of questioning off with clarifying how much to date has been allocated for the I'm assuming last year's firefighting season? Thank you.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 11)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to follow up ever so briefly on that. It looks like we're missing a the Minister may have said it, but we got Aklavik, Dettah, Fort Good Hope, two in Fort Smith, one KDFN, one for Whati, and one for Fort McPherson. That gives us eight. Did we miss one, or is it actually eight members? That's the first question.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 11)

Any chance they could provide it to the Members? Thank you.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 11)

So just a and I understand that. I just it sounds like at one way that there's money already committed to this initiative and this is just backfilling it in some way. And so that's why I'm curious on how the process is working specifically to this because if people are interested in sorry, I wouldn't use interest. I'd say if people still need support and if the program is still open or not open, if it's receiving money or it's spent or they're backfilling or overspent, that's the type of clarification I'm trying to (audio). So if there's still room for applications, I think I sort of heard...

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 11)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With respect to the two positions, are they currently staffed? Thank you.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 11)

Can I get some confirmation from the department it's not an overspent program and we're looking at ways to sort of help fill some gaps. It's similar to the original question, but it sounds like they're still taking applications but if there's no money, why are we taking applications. So I just need some clarity. Thank you.