Thank you very much, Madam Chair. No, I think I'm -- I think I'm -- I think I'm good. Thank you.

Thank you. You're good. Any other questions? Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, with the increase or the look at the money coming in and the plans for the future, I also have concern about, you know, the licensed daycare spaces or childcare spaces in communities. Is there going to be an opportunity or a way that family members can access funding through the new federal funding to provide that daycare for their own, you know, grandchildren or nieces and nephews? I would rather we paid family members to take care of their children versus people having to go out necessarily and work or grandparents that are just doing it at their own expense. I think that there's definitely a way we could be funneling some of that money into sort of a unique program like that. Thank you.

Thank you, Member. Minister of ECE.

Thank you. And there's not a way unless the family members get licensed. So the agreement is specifically for licensed childcare. And we don't have the ability to fund unlicensed childcare providers. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Is there potentially a way to carve off a chunk of money that then could be provided as a support to people, or even through an NGO type organization, so that -- I guess I get really hung up again on, you know, we are a small territory with lacking capacity. I don't want us to sit here with money that doesn't get spent because there isn't -- I mean, I know it would get spent somewhere. But it would probably get spent somewhere in a community like Yellowknife versus in, you know, Paulatuk, right? So to me, the amount of spaces like this we'd be talking about would be probably fairly small, and I guess there's -- I just feel that this is a -- at least a solution to bridge through until we maybe can have a day where we actually have those licensed daycare spaces in those communities. Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of ECE.

Thank you. And I hear the Member's comments. I guess I have to say that we have focused on licensed childcare spaces even through our own programs and sometimes we do have to pick a lane and stick with it, and I think that our efforts are focused on licensed childcare centres, and supporting people who are providing childcare in a community without a licensed centre but as if they were a licensed centre. So, you know, there are babysitters in communities where you drop your kids off but they aren't licensed. And so when we learn about that, we do do our best to help them become licensed, and we have funding to help them make the, you know, renovations that they need to make. So our efforts are focused on supporting licensed childcare centres and helping people become licensed. That being said, I completely understand the Member's comments and in a perfect world, yes, we would be able to do that, but that's not the direction that we're going. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister. Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I appreciate the Minister's comments, and perhaps I have to find a different department to press for this type of funding through a social program.

I guess with the Minister's comments then about trying to help unlicensed spaces become licensed but they run into that hurdle is the building code and the fire marshal and all of that good stuff, which we've heard lots about in this House. So I guess can the Minister speak to how do we -- or how does the department help spaces that perhaps aren't ideal become licensed in that case? Thank you.

Thank you, Member. Minister of ECE.

Thank you. So there are regional early living and childcare coordinators -- or consultants in every region, and those are the people on the ground who people can reach out to have those conversations.

We also have, like as I mentioned, some monetary supports. And we are, as part of the move towards an universal system of childcare, we are looking at supports that we do provide and determining if that's the best way to provide those supports. And so we could see some changes in the way we roll that funding out as well, to make these types of changes that the Member is talking about. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister. Anything further? Thank you. Member for Frame Lake.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. And I know that we had a supplementary appropriation, a couple of them tabled earlier today. One contains some information about the new federal agreements so I'm not going to ask any questions about that here because I think they're more appropriate for the SUP. But I do have a few questions about what's forced in the main estimates.

On page 41, it's about a hundred thousand dollar increase in purchased services, and can someone explain to me what's going on there? Thank you.

Thank you, Member. Minister of ECE.

Thank you. So that is related to the extension of the Canada-NWT agreement on early living and childcare, so not the Canada-wide. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Frame Lake.

Thanks for that, Madam Chair, and thanks to the Minister for that. What do we get for the hundred thousand bucks? Thank you.

Thank you, Member. Minister of ECE.

Thank you. I'll do what I should have done in the first place, and I'll ask the deputy minister to answer. Thanks.

Deputy minister, what will we get for that money?

Thank you. Member for Frame Lake.