Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the last question for this section is the Minister did reference, as well as the deputy minister, the homelessness specialist position. And I'm wondering if given the release of the homelessness prevention strategy during this fiscal year, but hopefully for implementation soon after, if there will be a need for additional resources in order to implement that strategy and if one homelessness specialist is enough for the department? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister Chinna.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We are working with the homelessness strategy, but it's an all-of-a-government approach with the department of executive as well too. And I'll just have President Young elaborate on the response as well because it is -- I find it quite complicated on how we're going to be seeing this going forward. Thank you.

Thank you. Vice-President Young.

Thank you. All right, are there any further questions from Members under NWT Housing Corporation executive? Member for Frame Lake.

Thanks, Madam Chair. And I'm just not sure where these two topics fit in because the descriptions of the activities are sometimes not very helpful, at least for me, in understanding what is happening. But community housing plans, where are we at with community housing plans? Were there any completed in the last year; how many are done; how many more to go; and what does the -- let's start with that. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Member. Minister Chinna.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I actually had this in front of me while we were sitting on the floor of the House here. We have a number of them that are in the draft plan stages. And I'm just looking for the ones -- we have some that are in progress where there's just the communication that is happening right now at the community level. We've got completed Enterprise, K'atlodeeche, Fort Good Hope. Just a second.

Okay, there's six of them that have been completed: Ford Liard, Kakisa, Lutselk'e, Fort McPherson, Tsiigehtchic, Hay River, Sambaa K'e, Jean Marie, Tulita, Yellowknife, Dene First Nation is developing their strategy. Thank you.

Member for Frame Lake.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I guess I have a habit of trying to ask too many questions at the same time. Can the Minister tell us how many were completed in the last financial year and how many are anticipated to be completed in 2023-2024? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Member. Minister Chinna.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Right now the community housing plans have taken a different approach with the allocation of the distinction-based funding that was allocated to the Indigenous governments. And they are now using these plans to identify their needs, and now they've received the funding. It hasn't stopped the work that we are currently doing. We're still working in collaboration with them, but some of the communities have just put a hold on some of these plans being developed. But we do have six of them that have been completed and nine that are being developed.

Thank you. Member for Frame Lake.

Okay, all right. So thanks, Madam Chair, and thanks to the Minister and the staff. So what is NWT Housing going to use these plans for when -- are they used in developing the capital plan for the housing corp, or what specifically are these plans used for now? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister Chinna.

Thank you, Madam Chair. These plans are really -- I just kind of want to go back a little bit. In the last government, this was really emphasized by the former president at that time to get these community housing plans finalized. These were to be advocating documents that identified every single housing need because Housing did understand that every housing need throughout the Northwest Territories is different. It's not a blanket one response solution. And looking at these documents to be guided by the Indigenous governments and at the community level but also having our conversations with the federal government on how to better fund the Northwest Territories, also recognizing we do have 17 Indigenous governments as well too and settled land claim areas. It was quite diverse. But the point of these housing plans was to identify the significant need at the ground level from the communities. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Member for Frame Lake.

Okay, thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I guess I would hope that the housing corp uses these plans as well in developing its own capital requirements. But I want to move on to apprenticeships.

And I just would like to get some assurance that the housing corp actually builds in apprenticeship requirements in any contracts that it issues. So if the Minister can tell me that that is the case in their practice, I'd be a lot happier. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister Chinna.

I'm happy to say that is absolutely correct. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Frame Lake.

Wow, that's great. I got a happy Minister and a happy MLA. Okay, so can you tell me how many apprenticeship positions are created and how successful you folks are in actually getting those positions filled? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister Chinna.