Thank you, Mr. Delorey. The honourable Minister responsible for Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the department has had a lot of contact with the mayor and council in Hay River over the past couple of years on a number of issues, including oil and gas. In fact, we have given some financial support to the mayor and council to look at these kind of issues. I think it was in the neighbourhood of $30,000.

We have also continued to meet. Today at noon, we had a meeting with people from the Hay River Reserve who are planning a facility. So we continue to have an open door. We will look at any proposals that come forward and anytime people want to meet in Hay River, or want to come here, I am ready to meet with them. I think this is a tremendous opportunity and I want to work together with everyone on this. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Handley. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister responsible for Health and Social Services. I would like to start off by thanking the Minister for her response to my colleague for the Mackenzie Delta. She provided informative information as to the process of where it is going.

My question to the Minister is, who is going to be involved in the next stages? She did mention that Public Works was going to be managing it, but the client department is either the Department of Health and Social Services or is it the Inuvik Regional Health and Social Services Board? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. The honourable Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Supplementary, Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can she inform me as to who is taking the lead role in the work that is ongoing? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. The honourable Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Madam Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister inform us as the proposal is developed, and we go forward and complete the drawings of the building, will they indeed instruct Public Works and Services to reuse the initial plans that were put in place? I believe it is called the 30 percent plan. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. The honourable Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Madam Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Thebacha, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister responsible for Health and Social Services. Given the fact that there is a recruitment retention plan that has lapsed money, and the government has said very clearly they are committed to training northern nurses, why are they refusing to send northern nurses out to get trained? The Minister said she has no flexibility, yet Minister Handley says the Ministers have tremendous latitude to move around money as long as it is under $250,000 and is reported back to committee.

I would like to ask the Minister what she is going to do about the particular situation I referred to in my Member's statement other than to tell this nurse that she can reapply in January and take her chances in a very narrow, rigid program? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. The honourable Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Supplementary, Mr. Miltenberger.

Mr. Speaker, I look forward to the discussion with the Minister on how we can improve her department. This is a very specific issue. While she is looking at how she is going to deal with this broader issue, there is a nurse asking to go to school who was refused. I am asking the Minister if she can use her Ministerial prerogative and look at this, given all of the money in her department that has lapsed in the area of retention and training?

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. The honourable Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, Mrs. Groenewegen.

The question has been taken as notice. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is to the Minister responsible for Finance regarding the decision to allow Public Works and Services to oversee the Inuvik Regional Hospital project. Was the Inuvik Regional Health Board involved in the decision to allow the Department of Public Works and Services to manage this project?