Thank you, Mr. Chair. I see that human resources has a $6 million budget in here and so in the meantime, before Hay River is brought into the territorial authority, the responsibility of human resources includes forecasting human resource needs, design, delivery, and evaluation of programs to support recruitment retention specifically related to health and social service professionals. These are all very important things and it doesn't seem like Hay River is getting access to the $6 million or what's coming of it that we're approving in this budget. That's one of the issues is that we don't seem to have access to everything the rest of the territory does.
I know that, when recruiting is done, Hay River Health and Social Service Authority, they send their own crew down to go and recruit. It's much more difficult to recruit when you are the Hay River Health Authority as opposed to when you are the territorial health authority. That would be my impression, anyway. It's difficult to get people to Hay River because of this outstanding issue with Hay River being out of the public service. I know people tell me all the time in Hay River and Yellowknife, either I have friends in Yellowknife who work in the health and social services authority who would love to move to Hay River, but they can't do it because of these issues.
I'd just like to bring attention to this, because it's not just the Health Minister who needs to know this. All of Cabinet needs to know this, because it's a big expenditure. I just want to impart on them the importance of moving forward with this. Nothing further. Thank you, Mr. Chair.