Thank you. So from listening to that I hear that we don't have -- like, or I didn't hear an amount; how much money was that? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of Infrastructure.

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. David wants to speak further to that, thanks.

Thank you. ADM Moore.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you. I will follow up to get the amount of that work, I guess, since nobody seems to have that number right now.

My next question then is around -- oh jeez, where did it go -- I'm losing my mind here. The community access road improvements. Thank you.

So under the community access plan, that is my understanding that money is directly into the communities themselves to work on their own projects, which is always a great thing in my opinion. Can the Minister or the department speak more to what projects this entails and whether or not they're going to put more money into that program? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the community access program is a really successful program because it starts to, you know, work with communities in some of the work around some of the planning and design for access roads. So right now in plan for 2023-2024, where this budget is concerned, we have some embankment work, surface improvements, drainage improvements, the -- that's more leaning to some of the specific projects. So that's just one example of some of the projects that we have going on. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't think that my question was answered there about what projects those are. Like, maybe I guess the better way to ask is which communities are those projects in and how much is that? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I can get back to the Member. That's not really specific to some of the capital stuff that we have so I can respond back to the Member with some specific projects that are more operational. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Yes, thank you. Any information that can be provided I would appreciate it. I want to just talk about the Great Bear River Bridge planning. I remember bidding on this project in 2018, and I'm sitting here now, four years later, and it's not progressing very much. I know that there has been work done but I'm hearing from the communities that the engagement has not been very great and that they're concerned that there's going to be a loss of this money and work outside of the territory. Can the Minister or the department speak a little bit more about what this entails under the planning. Thank you.

Thank you. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, some of the planned work for the Great Bear River Bridge includes obtaining regulatory permits. We have a tender award construction contract. Camp, site access construction, granular material, bridge foundation, fabrication of geo and engineering services. So we are looking at some of the scoping for this work and also working with the communities as well to ensure that we get community engagement because this is a really important project. It'll be the second biggest bridge here in the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I'm hoping that one day I get to walk across that bridge while I can still walk.

My next question is around deferred maintenance. So when we look at these amounts here, is this to actually bring down our costs of deferred maintenance as in to start tackling the overall amounts, or is this just sort of a keeping up with the Band-Aid solutions? Thank you.

Thank you, MLA. Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, deferred maintenance is the practice of postponing prudent but nonessential maintenance activities and our repairs to some of our capital infrastructure in order to save some of the costs. So some of the projects in the work plan, we look at things like some of the funding is based on maintenance priorities with 20 percent of major asset inventory. We also, at a minimum, assets to be inspected once every five years. So we do have a plan. I'm going to see if David wanted to speak a little bit more about some of the program. Thanks.

Thank you. ADM Moore.

Thank you. Any other questions, comments from Members under asset management? Member for Hay River South.