Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My question is, we seem to be spending a lot of dollars on large-scale public infrastructure such as hospitals and whatnot, but I think we're losing sight of the aging infrastructure in our communities by way of small health centres. We're trying to recruit and retain nurses in our communities, but one of the challenges we're facing is the small design of the older hospitals. I'll use Tsiigehtchic, for instance, because it's in my riding. These buildings are on pilings and we're having some infrastructure challenges, especially in the Beaufort-Delta region.
When you talk to the nurses that are at the health centres and the doctors that go in to provide doctors' visits, there is no room to provide these type of services because of the small designs of these older facilities. I'd just like to ask, in regard to capital infrastructure for health care centres and hospitals, when are we going to be doing a thorough examination and review on the replacement of health centres in communities and, more importantly, accommodating the challenges we're facing of recruitment and ensuring that we're going to be able to house the nurses possibly in the facility itself than having to accommodate them elsewhere? I heard this in the community of Tsiigehtchic, where it is a small community, where the health centre is awfully crowded once you get in there. In most cases the rooms are used for storage and whatnot and there is no excess space for dental care. Even when the doctors visit, they use the same room that the nurses have to operate out of. In most cases there is no accommodation provided. In most other larger centres there are nurses' accommodations being provided.
I'd just like to ask when we are going to do an evaluation of the condition ratings of the health centres in communities and replace those health centres.