Thank you, Member for Kam Lake. Minister.
Debates of May 28th, 2020
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Diane Archie Inuvik Boot Lake
Madam Chair. I'm going to look to Deputy Minister Cooper to answer that, thank you.
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Cooper
Thank you, Madam Chair. We don't have a line item in relation to languages and translation services available in long-term care. This is money that would flow to the authorities as part of their regular line budget, but there are those services that are available. I don't have the actual expenditure of that detail with me.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. My final question in regard to this section is: the Minister mentioned a couple of questions ago the homecare review report. I'm just wondering when we can expect to see that report online? Thank you.
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Diane Archie Inuvik Boot Lake
Madam Chair. The review right now, I went through a briefing with the staff earlier last week. Now we're bringing the review to Cabinet to review, and the next step after that is to bring it to the AOC, accountability and oversight. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Maybe the Minister can just help me with the process here a little bit. Does it have to come to AOC before it goes online, and then, as soon as AOC sees it, does it immediately become online and available to the public? Thank you.
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Diane Archie Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Madam Chair. Right now, we are just looking at bringing it to Cabinet, getting some feedback, and then we'll bring it to AOC. We haven't decided now what the next step is, whether it be how we engage the public or how we put it forward. We haven't made a decision on that. I would like to bring it first to Cabinet, and then AOC, and then get some feedback on it. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thanks very much, Madam Chair. Under operations expenditures summary for long-term and continuing care services, for contract services, the number kind of has quite a bit of movement from year to year. If we are looking at the 2018-2019 actuals, we see $850,000. If we move along to the main estimates for this year, we see $365,000 with quite a fluctuation between the two. I am wondering if the Minister can speak to that change in the budget item and where that comes from. Thank you.
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Diane Archie Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Madam Chair. The difference in the line item for contracting services is because we used a tool, the interRAI project software, which, in previous budgets, was a lot higher. Now that we have gone ahead using the new software, now the budget line item has gone down. Thank you.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. For the following year, would we expect to see the same type of a budget line item for here, then? It would be consistent within that, kind of, $365,000 mark? Thank you.
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Mathison
Thank you, Madam Chair. In the 2019-2020 revised main estimates, we had additional money that was showing up there to reflect new money from the federal government related to the bilateral funding agreement. We had a proposal and a project timeline, and a part of that funding was to support the implementation of the interRAI project. Like the Minister said, there's kind of a phased plan for that implementation. In 2019-2020, we had some contract work that was required. That is no longer needed for 2020-2021, so that's why that number has been reduced. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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