Thank you, Mr. St. Germaine. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The telehealth again, it's worthwhile. I'd like to see it more in the...I'm hoping that we can see it in the smaller communities. Like, Deline has the telehealth services. You have it in Yellowknife here, I don't know for what reasons. You have it in Smith and Hay River, Inuvik, and Stanton again in Yellowknife here. Again the Sahtu is not listed in here. It's probably one of the, besides the riding of Nunakput, that needs to make more sense to have telehealth in those areas where it's harder to get these services. So I'm quite disappointed that our region has been left out of this in terms of the telehealth services. Again, you're going to have it in larger centres and other places where they have fairly decent health services. Now, it just doesn't make sense to me how this telehealth service is being laid out. I want to ask the Minister if he would consider...They have the system already set up in Deline. Why is it just going to sit there and gather dust? Why don't they improve on that system in their communities where they can put new locations and spending more money to implement it? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you. Madam Chairman, the telehealth, is there a report saying that...I imagine there's a report saying how efficient it is and what kind of money it's going to save our department or enhance our health services in the smaller, more isolated communities. I say Yellowknife because sometimes in the smaller communities we have bad weather. Sometimes aircraft can't get in there for 30 hours or so. So we need to have that type of service. I'm not too sure if that's something to look at in terms of a report and making the assessment saying that telehealth is good or not good. I appreciate the Minister considering Deline or building Deline as a centre that will kick start their telehealth services again. Because it's just sitting there, you know? It's a crying shame that this telehealth service in the Sahtu is not doing what it's supposed to be doing.

Mahsi, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Member points out the challenge to this particular program, and that is that we've invested a lot of time and effort and resources into putting in the actual physical infrastructure, and the piece that needs to be developed now is getting it built into the culture of treatment and care for the whole system so that the doctors, the nurses, the social workers, the CHRs are familiar and see this as a tool that they use as automatically, and without any kind of fear or apprehension, as they do their computers or any other piece of equipment in their facility. The Member is right; I've been to some communities where unless there's a person there that's interested in it, it sits there covered up and, for the most part, may go unused for great periods of time. The intent and potential is it could be an extremely valuable service and our challenge now is to build on not only the infrastructure, but, as I indicated, the practice piece of this equation. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Yakeleya. We're on page 6-25, activity summary, program delivery support, contributions, total grants and contributions, $13.923 million. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This professional development, recruitment and retention, human resources, $2 million. I'm just curious, Mr. Minister, a lot of the recruitment, in my understanding, has gone over to human resources. I see a line here for $2 million into recruitment and retention. Is there something other than, these are for the front-line workers. I'm just wondering, Mr. Minister, what else are we doing besides having human resources look after the hiring for the frontline workers? Is this for them to travel? I'm just curious to see where that $2 million is going. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, there's two parts. The hiring and HR piece of actual recruitment, or the recruitment piece we're working with the human resources department. At the same time, we still administer control of funding for a lot of the support programs on the professional development side. I'll let Mr. St. Germaine speak to some of the details of how that's structured.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Murray. Mr. St. Germaine.

Thank you, Mr. St. Germaine. Okay, committee, we're back on page 6-25, activity summary, program delivery support, grants and contributions, contributions, total grants and contributions, $13.923 million.

Mr. Yakeleya.

I just wanted to ask the Minister on program delivery support funding, we're down from last year. Is there a reason why we're down from last year from $11.418 million?

Mahsi, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Madam Chair. That would be the money transferred to human resources.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. To page 6-25. Agreed?

Thank you. Page 6-26, 6-27, information item, program delivery support, active positions. Are there any questions? Mr. Yakeleya.