Page 17, Department of Health and Social Services, capital investment expenditure, health services program, not previously authorized, $855,000.
Debates of Oct. 22nd, 2004
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Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Could I get some information on the $355,000 for Inuvik and $350,000 for Yellowknife? Are any of these offices for Inuvik services being housed in the new hospital by any chance, or is it in a completely different building? Is it just for renovation? It just says improvements. Could I get more detail on that? Where is this office space for medical and support staff being renovated in Yellowknife? Thank you.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. For the Yellowknife office space for medical staff support, that's to do with the Frame Lake Medical Clinic expansion to make room for more doctors that have been hired here in the capital. So it's to make room for them.
The one for Inuvik is not with the existing hospital. Right now, those services are held outside in a different facility and they are doing renovations to fit in the 17 positions that have been there, but they've used other office space that they are now trying to upgrade to match the needs of the work being done. Thank you.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Are the 17 new positions for this year? What has caused the need? Why is it coming up as not previously authorized? If they were old positions, why wasn't office space for them considered in the previous budget? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. They are not new positions. They were providing services for the community of Inuvik, so they moved from the regional hospital. That's my understanding. They were fit into an office space that was not designed for the program that's being offered. This has been in the works for awhile but did not make the cut initially as the plans went forward, so they have come forward on this basis.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am ignorant in this new area here. Is this a new approach to the delivery of programs? It must be the integrated service model that Minister Miltenberger has been talking about for the last five years or the last three years. He's been the Minister for the last three years. Is that a move to bring all these providers under the same umbrella incorporating what they are doing and they have to be in the same building? Is that the need for improvements, or is it that the separate offices where they are housed need separate renovations? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Maybe I will have the Minister of Health and Social Services provide a response to that. Thank you.
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the renovation in Inuvik is to make the office space more habitable. If memory serves me correctly, the offices are in the Semmler Building. They are very crowded. They are trying to renovate to better accommodate the staff. I know they've had at least two major sewage backups that have caused a lot of damage. So this is to deal with that particular issue in terms of accommodating the staff. Thank you.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Page 18, Department of Justice, capital investment expenditures, public legal services, special warrant, $115,000.