Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I would ask the Minister if she could provide to me a summary on the telehealth in terms of where that’s going in terms of the operations in the Sahtu. I
know there’s telehealth speech in 14 sites and all the five communities in the Sahtu are going to be supported through that. The telehealth coordinators, if these machines are in use and they’re going to be used in other communities it will be much appreciated from this MLA in terms of knowing that we certainly can cut down on having our people get on these aircrafts to fly to other locations to be checked in the hospitals. So I want to know if I can get some information from the department in terms of some sort of a status update and plans going forward on the telehealth issue. If she wants to include the telehealth speech, that would be much appreciated, Mr. Chair.
The other one I wanted to ask is in regard to this page here, the primary community service funding for the seniors 1-800 line. They had the seniors advisory council, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, NWT Council for Persons with Disabilities, Senior Games and Rick Hansen Man in Motion. The seniors feel that they certainly need our support and I know that they are doing a lot of good work. I want to ask from this Minister as she’s responsible for the seniors also, in terms of recommendations that the Seniors’ Society had on the implementation of those recommendations. From my recollection of these recommendations, I’m not too sure if we had a status report as to where this department is in terms of implementing these recommendations that these seniors put together some time ago.