Thank you, Mr. Dent. Final supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the Minister's calculations then, of the $400,000 savings, does that number take into account the money that is required to pay RCMP officers to escort these inmates back and forth from the South Slave region to Yellowknife? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, I believe that the numbers that we are giving are the net savings that will be realized. That's what the department will be given and they will have to live within the budget that is approved. So yes, we are confident that the savings will be realized. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Great Slave, Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions this afternoon are for the Minister of Health and Social Services and follow through on the very welcome statement that he made about preparing for the impacts of major development. The Minister referenced workshops and upcoming events with communities and NGOs and I wanted to ask the Minister if he has budgeted funding for participants or interveners to assist these organizations in participating in this event. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. The Member is asking questions on a Minister's statement that has been referred to Committee of the Whole. I will allow this question to go on, but I will caution the Member to watch questioning on a Minister's statement that is already before Committee of the Whole.

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The honourable Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the issue of funding for intervener status is an issue that's being dealt with by Mr. Bell and he is, in the broader sense, the lead Minister. It's an issue that we're working with the federal government on. What we're doing is trying to, as social programs Ministers, come up with a plan that we can take to Cabinet that makes some sense, that uses the limited resources that we have to try to address the issue of social impacts, to work with the communities through the proposed workshops, but also to come up with a way to assist them to sort through the many reams of paper and binders they're going to get on technical issues. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Supplementary, Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The role that volunteer organizations and NGOs play in many parts of our society, I think, is undervalued and I would like to ask the Minister if there is any consideration of ongoing support for these organizations to be able to maintain their value and their impact and their relevance to government-wide initiatives and, indeed, those of industry. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we fund many NGOs as a matter of course through our day-to-day business and we will continue to do that. We will also be lobbying the federal government to look at better assisting those requiring intervener status. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Supplementary, Mr. Braden.

To that response, that we would like to urge the federal government to get behind this, could the Minister elaborate just what steps have been taken to prompt better support for the NGOs in the regulatory process? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Ministers more involved in this file on a daily basis are Minister Bell, the Finance Minister and the Premier himself. They work much more closely with their federal counterparts on this issue, but there are steps being taken to lobby the government. We're looking at the resources we have so that things don't stop and so we can keep moving with the resources that we have on the ground already. We're going to come back, as social programs Ministers, with a proposal to Cabinet that will lay out in more detail the proposed workshops, as well as how we can better support, along with, hopefully, the Association of Communities, the work of communities. To assist them to interpret and deal with the flood of information that they're going to get; that's often very technical and hard to decipher. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Final supplementary, Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In terms of the pipeline readiness office that our government is about to open in the new fiscal year, will there be a place in this organization or infrastructure for the input and participation of NGOs and community service organizations? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, very clearly, we want to set up a process and mechanisms where there is a main contact point, a one-window point of entry, which is anticipated to be set up through the pipeline readiness office. I will be working, for example, as chair of the social programs committee of Ministers, with Mr. Bell as the lead Minister for this file, along with reporting back on a regular basis to Cabinet. We've also briefed, as I've indicated, the joint committee of AOC and Cabinet. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Nahendeh, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment with regard to the Sunchild e-learning proposal that I submitted to his office about a month ago. Mr. Speaker, at the heart of this proposal was Sunchild's experience of their success and its can-do attitude, its understanding and linkages to aboriginal communities. Its strong community leadership has tracked and measured results. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister offer any examples of this kind of education being offered in Fort Liard or, indeed, our Northwest Territories? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. The honourable Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm not sure whether there might be other divisional education councils or DEAs that have found a way to offer the same sort of programming. I am hoping to be able to respond to the Member's letter to me within the next week. At that time, we will maybe have something further to discuss. Thank you.