Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Braden.

Mr. Chairman, I guess more to my point is I want to see what kind of process of frequency we have of serving our population and determining the level of need. I guess that is where I would go with my next question. In our long-term care strategy, when would be the next plan or anticipated time when we would have a survey of this kind of care requirement, Mr. Chairman?

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, from within the department, work was done back in 2004. The Wilkinson report, as it was called, was what we based a lot of our work on and we can provide that information to the Member. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Braden.

Mr. Chairman, in terms of preparing our range of care, and I am talking on a territory-wide basis, in terms of designing and delivering care to dementia and Alzheimer's patients, what is the level of expertise or staffing that we have devoted to this very specialized type of requirement, Mr. Chairman?

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As we have done in a number of fields, whether we work with NGOs on specific programs or deal within our existing facilities, there are a number of levels of types of quality or requirements that would be met, but I will have Mr. Parker give that information. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Parker.

Thank you, Mr. Parker. Mr. Braden.

Mr. Chairman, is there anything in the government's long-term plan or staffing that outlines the need or an intention to bring specialized staff into the department to help guide our level of care and the delivery of this kind of service, Mr. Chairman? We know that as our population ages, this will become a greater and greater demand on us. We know, I believe, from the information that may have been gleaned from the Wilkinson report of 2004 that there are an estimated at least 60 people just in Yellowknife who are at some stage of dealing with dementia. That is quite a number of persons and I am wondering if we are going to be bringing on somebody with a mandate to design and deliver coordinated services on a territory-wide basis, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Before we continue, can I ask the committee to keep their voices down. Mr. Braden has the floor. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as a result of the Wilkinson report, the department started putting its long-term care strategy together. Out of that, as well, there was a commitment to bring another framework on how we would proceed. That framework is in progress and is not recognized within these main estimates. What we have available in this document is continuing on with the level of service we do have existing and that's using our own nurses and staff from that end of delivering the service. The framework is in progress and will be worked on. At that point, we will have to decide, when it's completed, how we proceed and fund requirements that would come forward. That's the biggest difficulty we face. The majority of what we have here is dealing with forced growth items. We have not many new initiatives within this budget. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Braden.

Mr. Chairman, another important aspect of the community care that we deliver is the support to disabled people and one of those institutional organizations that we have long supported is the institutional service to the children through the Territorial Treatment Centre, here in Yellowknife. The TTC, the issue has been that this service is going to be relocated to Hay River and contracts and things have been established to engage that.

Mr. Chairman, my concern or my question right now is for the continuance of this service through the transition period to Hay River. I believe there was an original completion time for that of the summer or the fall of this year. Obviously that's not going to happen. Have contracts been extended? Are we going to enable this service to continue until the Hay River facility is established, Mr. Chairman?

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, that program will continue. The contract is in place. The contractor is aware of the plans of the department, so nothing has changed on the delivery of the service or any changes to that program. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That's all.

Thank you. We are on page 6-35, comments? Ms. Lee.

Are we on 35 or 36?

We are on page 6-35. Thank you. Activity summary, community health programs, operations expenditure summary, $69.187 million.