Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my short time here in the Ledge in the last 16 months, obviously we’ve had a lot of questions in Hay River about health care and the health care system. You would think that would be odd, Hay River being the beneficiary of a new health centre being built there. We hope that in the springtime this facility begins and that it’s going to be a great facility for 50 years to come.

But there are a great many of questions out there in the community about what’s going to happen with the long-term beds in the Hay River area, and what’s going to happen with all the other services that aren’t going to be in the current new facility that the new facility doesn’t have designed in it, and what will happen to the old hospital facility.

My concerns here today are that the Department of Health should have had a clear picture for the community of Hay River of what exactly health and social services is going to look like for Hay River for the next 50 years. This facility, as I indicated, is going to be a facility for the next 50 years in the community, yet there are too many questions out there on what is going to happen. Where are all the services for the community of Hay River going to be? What is the future of community health and social services going to be in Hay River?

Later on today I will have questions for the Minister of Health on how the Department of Health can create such a facility and not have a blueprint of what that health system in Hay River is going to look like. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.