Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yesterday I actually talked in some detail about the medical travel modernization, and the Medical Travel Policy has gone to the Standing Committee on Social Programs who has given it back to us with a number of comments and whatnot. We’ve started to make those changes and we’re going to be submitting that to Cabinet for consideration. Once it’s approved, we will have the foundation document, which is the base Medical Travel Policy. Of that, based on discussions I’ve had with committee earlier, there’s going to be a number of pillars that connect on to that Medical Travel Policy.

Currently, we’ve actually begun some of that work and we have a public engagement process underway on patient supports or escorts. This began in December 2014 and the group that’s doing that work have been around the Northwest Territories. What we wanted to do is we wanted to get them into large communities, small communities, on road, off road, air only, those types of things. So far they’ve gone to Hay River, Tuk, Inuvik, Behchoko, and they’ve also visited staff as well as residents or patients of ours that are visiting the Larga House. We anticipate the stakeholder engagement around this component will be done at the end of April. Just as a note, as of January 16th they had actually had some one-on-one engagements with over 123 people. They’re also reviewing all the information that we have collected over the years. Yellowknife, Fort Good Hope and Trout Lake will be engaged before the current engagement process is over.

It’s anticipated that the next one we’ll be working on is benefits eligibility. That engagement is going to begin in July and we wanted to do the medical travel appeal engagement in 2015-2016. We’re hoping to have this work done, like I said, the engagement done towards the end of April. These will help inform those other areas to make specific policy around those particular components of the Medical Travel Policy.

For the money I’ll go to the director of finance.