Thank you. Minister of Health and Social Services.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, this is a variety of things. So it includes the Mental Health Act review board, the Yellowknife combined day shelter and sobering centre. There was a shortfall there in insurance and tax spending. There is money going into addictions recovery and aftercare, the anti-poverty fund, which is the source of funding for the Hay River day shelter. Collective agreement increases and then finally home and community care and mental health and addiction services bilateral agreement is a part of this increase as well. So it's, you know, sort of a catchall for community mental wellness and addictions recovery spending. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Hay River South.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just going to another line item here, family violence prevention, and it's showing $4.181 million. Can the Minister tell me, like what percentage of that would stay in Yellowknife and how much would go -- what percentage would go out to the surrounding communities? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of Health and Social Services.

Yes, thank you. Most of that funding goes to -- directly to the family violence shelters. So about 400,000 goes to the shelter in Tuk; 660,000 to the shelter in Inuvik; 694,000 to the shelter in Fort Smith; 930,000 to the shelter in Yellowknife. The reason that's so much more is because they are also the people to contact for 24-hour support and emergency protection orders. So there's some additional staffing. That is territory-wide but based in Yellowknife.

There was a lapse, but we're not expecting this -- that we're expecting that's just temporary to provide regional -- or pardon me, family violence shelter support. There is a group that meets from time to time that talks about issues that are common to family violent within the shelter operations and meeting the standards.

And I did forget to the mention, and the Member will be very interested to know, that this list includes $680,000 for the family support centre in Hay River. So the shelter support funding is $3.3 million, and then the remainder is for contract services and family violence prevention fund and communications related to the prevention of family violence. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister. Member for Hay River South.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I appreciate the Minister including Hay River in there. I thought maybe she missed it. Anyways, the next one is the population health. I see there's a $1.3 million lower cost, I guess, or a smaller budget there for 2022-2023. What -- what's that about? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of Health and Social Services.

It's about so many different things that I'm going to ask Mr. Elkin if he can explain. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Elkin.

Thank you. Member for Hay River South.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to go back to the -- I think it's the family violence prevention again, and I'm just looking at the numbers here, and wondering I guess, why the difference in communities. Like, for instance, I think Fort Smith gets 300K more than Hay River. And I'm just wondering why that would be; what's the criteria that would cause something like that to happen? Is it just the matter of -- of the organization -- you know, that's what -- that's what they're asking for or is it something else? Thank you.

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. For more information about how the funding is distributed to the shelters, I'd like to direct the question to the deputy minister. Thank you.

Thank you. Deputy minister Cooper.

Thank you. Member for Hay River South.

Thank you, Madam Chair. No further questions.

Are there further questions from Members under health and social programs? Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I'll start with a comment I've made before and that I for the next main estimates, I would like departments to work together and maybe review ones that have too many key activities and one that have too large of key activities.

I note this is $350 million on three pages, which is, you know, bigger than other department's single budget. So it's hard to find the line items and to sort through what exactly is in here. And I guess I will begin with the first very high-level question. Do we have a projection of what the health authority's deficit will end up at the end of this current fiscal? Thank you.

Thank you, Member. Minister of Health and Social Services.

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. I don't think we have a figure for the end of this fiscal year. I think we produce a figure annually, and the last figure was rounded up $160 million. So that was true one year ago.