Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, further to the questions just asked by my colleague from Yellowknife North, the Minister responded sorry. These questions are for the Minister of Housing NWT. The Minister responded that they found issues with the plan. But the building was already built by that point. I've been in it. I had the honour of going to see the building with the Minister of Housing NWT. And it's a beautiful, beautiful building, and I think, you know, every community in the territory would love one.
But the building was already built, Mr. Speaker. So why were the issues with the plan not caught before the building was built. Thank you.
Thank you, Member for Kam Lake. Minister responsible for Housing NWT.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Member for the question as well too. Those issues were discovered after the building was built. Right now we are dealing with those with this within the corporation within Housing NWT. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, what lessons has Housing NWT learned result of this, or what are they doing to ensure that this does not happen again. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Once that I discovered that we had issues with the final completion of this building, looking at the plans that had come forward, and looking at the comments made by the sorry. I just I can't remember at the top of my head. The building inspectors. The final inspections, we did have issues with that after the building was constructed.
I brought this back to Housing NWT. And we need to work more closely when we are looking at these contracts, we are putting them out for tender. Contractors need to be better supported. And looking at the phases where they are constructing our buildings, our assets, we need to be further more involved so we could avoid something like this happening again in the future. It's really unfortunate that we had gotten to this stage. But housing needed to be involved a lot more. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. The question was already asked, but I'll ask it again. What is the anticipated additional cost of this, and is this expected to come forward in a sup or be funded from within. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't have those details. I'm not prepared to be answering these questions right now. But I'm just going on the briefing that I've had recently. I don't have those final numbers. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister. Final supplementary, Member for Kam Lake.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. My final question is, will the Minister provide this information to Members on this side of the House. My concern is that Members recently negotiated additional funding for the NWT Housing, and the intent of that money is not to go towards stuff like this; it's to open up more housing and to repair houses that need repair so that people can get housing. And so I'm hoping that this doesn't come at the cost of that. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I hear the Member when it you know, we're looking at putting more housing on the ground. And I want to make sure that, you know, I'm clear when we are looking at the housing delivery throughout the Northwest Territories that we are committed to putting those units on the ground.
And I do appreciate the advocation on the other side, providing additional funding to this portfolio for us to enhance our housing delivery as well.
But in this case for the nineplex in Fort Good Hope, it had come up with a number and several issues once the building was completed. And there are further technical issues as well where we had to get outside contractors to come in as well.
The community has expressed a lot of interest. They have expressed further updates as well. We do have a housing waitlist. I know the impacts of a nineplex in a smaller community is it's really top of the discussion at the ground level, and people are waiting to be moving into these units as well. I do understand the urgency to get this nineplex up and going and having the transfer of elders into these units as well too. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister. Oral questions. Member for Hay River South.
