Thank you, Madam Chair. And as for the reason we can't speed up, we haven't even passed this yet, and by the time we pass it, it will be too late to get anything up there. I really wish we could have done this a couple years ago, but we are where we are now. So I'm thankful that we're getting it, but the site has not been decided upon yet.

This process began really early on in this Assembly. But as everyone knows, things have happened, and everything has slowed down, and we have really lost a year on a lot of initiatives, including this one. So unfortunately, we don't have a site settled at this point. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I assume that the community is heavily involved with selecting the location. I see the Minister nodding yes. So that's great.

I had the opportunity to get up to Tuktoyaktuk a while back there and look at the Mangilaluk school. I know at the time there was some concern about the fill, etcetera at the site. And I'm just wondering if the design of that building and the ongoing renovation, if there was a reduction in the amount of fill that was used to meet budgetary means. Thanks.

Thank you. Minister.

Thank you. Yes, I believe there were some adjustments to various aspects of the project. I can ask Mr. Shannon for some more detail on that. Thank you.

Thank you. ADM Shannon.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I just want to apologize to the Member from Nunakput for mangling the Mangilaluk school.

My last question is just about maybe the Minister can speak a little bit about the Kaw Tay Whee school in Dettah, and is the school in Dettah considered to be treated as a community school in the sense of that it gets extra -- or is treated differently than the schools in Yellowknife? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Member. Minister.

Thank you. The schools, I would say it's more accurate to say perhaps the schools in Yellowknife are treated different than schools elsewhere because there's a combination of GNWT owned schools in Yellowknife and school board owned schools, and there's differences with the maintenance of those schools and all of those different aspects, and it just goes to basically the age of -- Yellowknife school boards predate the GNWT so we have a different relationship with them. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I appreciate the Minister answering my question because I don't feel like I can speak much anymore after this week.

I guess my last question there is when the kitchen overhaul was taking place in the school in Dettah, was there consideration given at that time for any expansions or additional space to be added so that the school could have some of these opportunities that the other schools in the communities are getting. Thank you.

Thank you. Minister.

Thank you. Perhaps I can ask Mr. MacDonald to expand on this. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. MacDonald.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

No further questions.

Are there any further questions from Members who haven't spoke to the junior kindergarten to grade 12 school services? Member for Hay River South.

Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. I notice that we have two schools there that are getting a barrier-free access. I'm just wondering if these are the only two schools in the infrastructure that require this, or are we looking at other schools as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Member. Minister.

Thank you. I wouldn't imagine that these are the only schools that require this. The way the capital process works is that we try to advance a major capital process if we can every year, and we had the opportunity to advance some minor capital projects as well, and, you know, the department and myself well, I can speak for myself. I've prioritized projects like this where we're making schools more accessible, and so I would imagine that as the years go on, we're going to see more and more of these projects, because originally, you know, schools weren't necessarily built to be barrier-free. But whether they are required to be, you know, barrier-free for future students or in some instances there may be a student who is currently attending school who would benefit from renovations, we're trying to make those happen. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Hay River.