Thanks, Madam Chair. I am happy to answer the question now. We did send the draft Medical Travel Policy to the Standing Committee on Social Programs to provide us with input. We are just tweaking it right now at which point we’ll be sending it to the executive for final consideration. At the same time, we are also working on the individual pillars that fall under the Medical Travel Policy and right now we’re actually doing the work on patients, supports and escorts that began in 2014, December. Our consultants have travelled to communities like Hay River, Inuvik, Tuk and Behchoko. They’ve gone to the Larga House. There have also been a number of stakeholder engagement meetings on the patients, supports and escorts. It’s on track to be completed in April 2015. As of the middle of January, we had over 123 people who have engaged in one-on-one interviews and focus groups. Yellowknife, Fort Good Hope and Trout Lake are still on a plan to be engaged before the current engagement process is over.

As we’ve said all along, once the Medical Travel Policy is done we are going to start working on these pillars. So patient supports is the first one we’re working on and in July 2015 we are planning to begin the work on benefits and eligibility and start the engagement around that and in 2015-16 we also want to get to the new medical travel appeal process so we can have all those new policies done.

I don’t believe that it’s going to save money. I believe its cost neutral but it’s about getting the best results for the patients and making sure they have the supports they need when they are travelling. We don’t anticipate an increase. We believe we can do better with the dollars we have by having appropriate programs in place.