Shauna Morgan

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just to wrap up on that one, I just want to emphasize how important I think it is to plan ahead and ensure we have proper funding to do these projects when they need to be done and not wait until something is in an emergency state before we, you know, try to fix it and we're always behind the 8 ball and usually things cost more at that point and have become more dire. So I'm hopeful in the case of this project that we will get ahead of it and plan ahead and do what needs to be done to ensure the harbour is restored. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So moving on to the agreements with the federal government, various agreements around health funding. Can the Minister clarify whether any of these agreements have resulted in carryover from previous years' funding being unspent?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks for that. So I'll leave that for now. I think these are good areas to follow up in to follow up on both to make sure that we have appropriate contracts with the facilities in the south, that we're getting good value for money, that, you know, there's appropriate oversight, and that people are getting the services they need, and to look more into these patterns of do we have more people signing up for than before and why. Anyway, I found this useful for now and will definitely follow up. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, first, about the collective agreement with the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority, can the Minister confirm whether all additional salary and benefits that were negotiated as part of this agreement, the new agreement, have been costed out or whether there are elements in these agreements that are yet to be costed?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Are these RFPs issued every single year, or how often?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I just wanted us to sort of have that in our minds and have that in perspective. But I'll just go on briefly to the second item in there about the medical travel benefits.

I thank the Member for Range Lake for asking many of these questions but I just wanted to follow up with one question about what are we what steps are we taking to actually reestablish dental services in the regions so that hopefully some of these medical travel costs could go down going forward?

Thanks. So we're still on outofterritory services, right? Okay.

On the adult outofterritory supportive living services, can the Minister give us any insights on how much expenses have increased over the past seven, eight years, or so over time in this area?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I wanted to start first with just noting that this overall request of $26 million for this item is the highest second only to wildfirerelated expenses, so I think it's significant. The $18 million supplementary that's requested for payment on our debt, I appreciate the explanation given earlier by the Minister as to why costs have gone up. Can the Minister give some perspective as to how much of an increase this is over what we had budgeted to be spent on paying interest on debt or paying off debt? So how much is the $18 million adding to in terms of how much we're...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And a quick note on so the upcoming YK Wellness and Recovery Centre that we talked about yesterday in our capital expenditures that is scheduled to be opened around 2026 I believe we established yesterday, I just wanted to note that if the government is hoping that we would be able to get an nonprofit or a nongovernment agency to run this kind of facility, I would strongly advise that we start now in planning and finding those partnerships because I fear we'll be unsuccessful if we leave it up to, you know, even within a year of planning to open the centre and then start...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So the Minister mentioned a few minutes ago the SNAP program, the apprenticeship program. Has the SNAP program been able to link apprentices or students to work at the Giant Mine Remediation Project? Or what is the plan if not? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.