Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I certainly hope I have better luck with my written question than I did with my oral questions.

Mr. Speaker, my written question today is to the Minister of Health and Social Services regarding the use of locum and agency nurses in the Northwest Territories.

1) Please provide the details as to the number of

agency nurses and the hours in total used in the last two years, by community and by facility.

2) Please provide a costing on the use of agency

nurses over the last two years, based on the criteria posed in question 1, in as much detail as reasonably possible that shows all costing factors.