Thank you. Mr. Brennan.

Thank you. Member for Yellowknife North.

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. And I -- sorry, I think the Minister said that I may have to ask Finance this question, and forgive me if I am slightly confused how this all works. Like I said, we're charging back $32 million to ourselves as a GNWT here. I get that TSC has about $10 million in staff, but some of them -- has 20 million remaining. How much of that would be going to Northwestel? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Madam Chair. That's very technical. I mean for us to just pop a number off on how much we're giving to Northwestel would take some time. So I'm going to ask the Member if we can get back to him. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Yellowknife North.

Yeah, and I guess perhaps I would also like the Minister to clarify if I have a misunderstanding here. I know TSC kind of operates on this model of charging departments for the service provide, and it may not in fact be a true cost to the GNWT. So perhaps in coming back, the Minister could also clarify a bit about the TSC and what this $30 million means. Does that mean we are actually spending $30 million? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I'm going to see if Mr. Brennan can provide further clarification and perhaps a little more detail on the confusion the Member's having. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Brennan.

Thank you. Member for Frame Lake.

Thanks, Madam Chair. So I'm looking at page 253, and I see that there's a couple of new positions that have been added to this activity, and I'm just hoping that the Minister can tell me what those two positions are and where they're located? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The departmental changes for the two for 2022-2023 is a highways transportation officer to ensure that we have highway compliance and safety and as well as the occupational health and safety specialist to ensure that we have compliance with regulatory as well as legislative and policy requirements. One is located in Yellowknife. The other one is in Hay River. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Member for Frame Lake.

Thanks, Madam Chair. So maybe I'll just start with the occupational health and safety position.

Look, I love Hay River, but why is the position located in Hay River? Are there existing occupational health and safety positions throughout Department of Infrastructure in all the other regions? Why Hay River here? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The decision -- I mean, when we look at increasing positions in the regions and here in the Northwest Territories, we try and ensure that we do, you know -- to be able to look at things equally by region and perhaps a decision was -- I'm going to see if my deputy minister, Mr. Loutitt, can add more to that.

Thank you. Deputy minister Loutitt.

Thank you. Member for Frame Lake.

Thanks, Madam Chair; yeah, you can give me a promotion.

Yeah, look, I think I understand something of what these folks do and it is important work and we have to make sure that there's a safe workplace for all our employees. But I just wonder how we approach this as a government. You know, do these people only serve and work with Infrastructure staff, or do they serve other government departments as well and how -- and if not, how do other government departments meet the needs in terms of occupational health and safety for their employees? So yeah, I guess that's a question for the Minister here. It's probably more of an issue of how do we approach occupational health and safety as a government. Thank you, Madam Chair.