Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, these are for a number of reasons, and I think the Member has actually identified a couple of them already. A number of the positions that you see in Hay River are as a result of the new Health and Social Services regional centre that just opened there in order to provide services in a larger building with a different delivery method. It did require additional positions, things like emergency room nurses that they didn't have previously.

It also needed some additional positions just as a result of the footprint, how it's laid out and how they're going to provide services. That is how come you see a huge bump in Hay River.

You will also notice Tlicho has a bump in positions. That is mostly as a result of the Jimmy Erasmus long-term care facility that has opened.

You will notice some change in Stanton as well. Much of that certainly, I believe it's six positions, five full-time, one part-time, are as a result of the inclusion of more dialysis services within the hospital.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks.

Mr. Nakimayak

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, my only question is for the authority allocation for the Beaufort Delta Health and Social Services, I see a decrease from last year. Could the Minister explain that, please?

Thank you, Mr. Nakimayak. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, a couple of those positions, or rather the funding, was as a result of the midwifery program. There was some positions allocated to Inuvik for the midwifery program that was going to go there. The program evolved into a different model. The positions were never established, although they had showed up in previous mains. We are discontinuing the midwifery positions in the Beaufort Delta with the exception of the nurse practitioner who is providing the pre and post-natal services, working on the regional midwifery program up there in cooperation with the doctors. Some of those positions are mostly those midwifery positions that were never established or created.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Nakimayak.

Thanks for that, and going down to the next region allocation, I see for the Beaufort Delta, last year the total was $241,000, and this year is $223,000. Just some clarification on that. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Nakimayak. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the total for region allocation in 2015-16 was $241,000 and it's $240,000 for this year, so it's down one thousand. There has been some additional positions added for other reasons, and some internal reallocations, positions that existed, but maybe weren't in the previous capital. They would have been unfunded. They've brought some of those in to be established.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Nakimayak.

Thank you, Mr. Nakimayak. Any further questions. Seeing none. Page 175, 176, Health and Social Services, administrative and support services, operations expenditures summary. Total activity, $77,812,000.

We will defer this page and go to detail. Detail on 177, which is Health and Social Services, administrative support services, grants, contributions, transfers, information item. Any questions? Recognizing Mr. Thompson. Mr. Vanthuyne.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Mr. Chairman, on page 176 under the program detail, we have a category, or line item, identified as facility maintenance and support. Since the 2014-15 actuals it has gone up by nearly $2 million. I wonder if I can get an explanation from the Minister what -- although it seems self-explanatory, but what facility maintenance and support consists of and why we might see nearly $2 million increase over the last couple budgets. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Vanthuyne. Mr. Minister?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The two areas that have sort of resulted in this significant increase is some forced growth around some of the standard supplies that are provided to the health centres across the Northwest Territories, but a bigger chunk is actually as a result of the temporary operation of the long-term care in Hay River. The H.H. Williams were staying in the building for two years in a long-term care capacity until we can get the expansion at Woodland finished. As a result, we have to spend some additional dollars there to ensure that our long-term care is still operational. It's not part of the new hospital.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Vanthuyne.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the reply. That seems to suffice for that line item. I have nothing more for page 176, and in case others do I'll let them ask their questions before going on to 177. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Vanthuyne. Mr. Thompson.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I noticed in the administration there's a $2.061 million reduction. Could the Minister explain why there is a reduction compared to the main? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Mr. Minister?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, our Main Estimates are only slightly down from last year. We had some revised mainstream in the last fiscal year as a result of some cost pressures. Much of this is a result of the pension top up that we have to provide to Hay River. We imagine that there will likely be a sup again during this fiscal year once they're able to quantify what they're pension top up might need to be to keep Hay River's pension viable.