Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. The honourable Member for Sahtu, Mr. Yakeleya.

Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Health and Social Services.

1. Please provide the actual cost to the

Department of Health and Social Services of alcohol-related health conditions.

2. Please provide the success rate for individuals

who have completed a 20-day program.

3. What specific measurements are used to

determine the success rates for alcohol treatment programs?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Transportation.

1. How many loads have been trucked up the

Mackenzie River winter roads to date this winter season and what is expected to be the total number of loads for the 2013 winter road season?

2. How many loads are projected to travel on the

Mackenzie Valley winter roads in 2013-2014?

3. How many vehicle accidents have occurred on

the Mackenzie Valley winter roads to date this winter road season?

4. How many maintenance cycles are within each

contractor’s section on the Mackenzie Valley winter roads?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Item 9, returns to written questions. Item 10, replies to opening address. Item 11, replies to budget address, day three of seven. Item 12, petitions. Item 13, reports of standing and special committees. Item 14, reports of committees on the review of bills. Item 15, tabling of documents. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Item 16, notices of motion. Item 17, notices of motion for first reading of bills. Item 18, motions. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I MOVE, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that the Speaker be authorized to set such sitting days and hours as the Speaker, after consultation, deems fit to assist with the business before the House.

Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. The motion is in order. To the motion.

The motion is carried.

---Carried

Item 19, first reading of bills. Mr. McLeod.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Monfwi,

that Bill 1, Tlicho Statutes Amendment Act, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Bill 1, Tlicho Statutes Amendment Act, has had first reading.

---Carried

Item 20, second reading of bills. Item 21, consideration in Committee of the Whole of bills and other matters: Tabled Document 9-17(4), NWT Main Estimates, 2013-2014, with Mrs. Groenewegen in the chair.

I would like to call Committee of the Whole to order. The item before us today is the NWT Main Estimates, 2013-2014. What is the wish of the committee? Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The committee would like to consider Tabled Document 9-17(4), NWT Main Estimates, 2013-2014.

Is

committee agreed?

We will start with general comments on this document right after a short break.

---SHORT RECESS

Okay, committee, I’d like to call us back to order, please. We have agreed to consider Tabled Document 9-17(4), Main Estimates, 2013-2014. We’ve also agreed to begin with general comments. I would like to ask the Minister of Finance if he would like to bring witnesses into the House.

Yes, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Does committee agree?

Agreed, thank you. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms if he would please escort the witnesses to the table.

Minister Miltenberger, for the record, could you please introduce your witnesses.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have with me Mike Aumond, deputy minister of Finance; and Sandy Kalgutkar, deputy secretary to FMB. Thank you, Madam Chair.