Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As I stated earlier, the numbers of adults and children that we place in these institutional settings hasn’t changed that much and I could give Members figures on that. I remember seeing that most recently. It is the cost of providing those services that has gone up.
With respect to the Hay River assisted living facility, we have, I believe, about 20 residents there and the department has worked very hard to look at all the people we have in southern settings to see who are eligible and who can be moved up and that depends on the person’s care needs as well as the family’s needs. So there have been case management meetings happening on each of those situations and we have been successful in moving some of the people in southern jurisdictions to Hay River assisted living facility as well. Some of the other ones that have moved into Hay River are those ones who would have gone south if we didn’t have the place in Hay River. So there is a cost avoidance there.
So the answer to MLA Ramsay, I want to tell him that we do constantly review the cases of our residents we have in southern placements. Some of them are long term, some of them will probably never be able to come home. But I think there is about half of them, there are some who are more short term and we constantly review them to see if we need to send them south, because obviously we want to keep them north and keep them closer to home and be able to place them in our own setting.