Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the Member’s comments. In this capital plan you will find a number of things we’re doing. There are some upgrades to some flooring in Fort Good Hope; we are finishing the construction of Fort Providence; we are beginning the construction of a health centre in Fort Resolution; we are continuing and hopefully, well, we’re intending to

complete the construction of the Hay River hospital. There are also some upgrades in some facilities like the Inuvik Hospital, the continued construction of the Norman Wells Health Centre, which includes a new long-term care facility with 18 new beds in the Northwest Territories, which is helping us address the shortages of beds throughout the Northwest Territories as a starting point. There is medical equipment to evergreen; we are doing some work around electronic medical records; and there is also the Stanton Renewal Project in here.

There are a number of other things that are priorities for the department that we are trying to address, and small health stations like the one in Colville Lake is certainly one of them. We have a number of health stations in the Northwest Territories where we are experiencing some frustrations with the buildings themselves and the ability to provide the services that we are expected and intending to provide. We are looking at ways of moving forward on some of those projects as well.

With respect to Tulita, Tulita is a facility that the Member and I have had a number of conversations about, the Tulita health centre. I am looking forward to seeing the documentation and pictures that the Member is pulling together and sending my way. We have completed a functional plan for the Tulita health centre, we know what we need, and the next step is to do the planning study, which we intend to complete in 2015. We’re hoping, assuming that all things move forward according to plan and, according to the capital planning process, we hope that we can see the Tulita health centre in the ’16-17 budget. That would be the earliest that we could actually move on that project.

With respect to palliative care, I have had a number of conversations with the Member and we are currently doing a bit of a study and exploring options. They don’t all necessitate beds in communities but maybe programs and ways to support people to come back to the communities. Beds may be an option but it may not be the only option, so we’re continuing to explore that to see how we can support residents who wish to return to the communities for some palliative care.