Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2023-2024, Department of Finance, capital investment expenditures, Office of the Comptroller General, not previously authorized, $432,000. Does committee agree?

Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2023-2024, Department of Finance, capital investment expenditures, total department, not previously authorized, $8,163,000. Does committee agree?

Please turn to page 14. Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2023-2024, Department of Health and Social Services, capital investment expenditures, administrative and support services, not previously authorized, $6,880,000. Does committee agree?

Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2023-2024, Department of Health and Social Services, capital investment expenditures, health and social programs, not previously authorized, $5,261,000. Does committee agree?

Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2023-2024, Department of Health and Social Services, capital investment expenditures, long term and continuing care services, not previously authorized, $7,176,000. Does committee agree?

Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2023-2024, Department of Health and Social Services, capital investment expenditures, total department, not previously authorized, $19,317,000. Does committee agree?

Now turn to page 15. Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2023-2024, Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment, capital investment expenditures, economic diversification and business support, not previously authorized, $2,780,000. Does committee agree?

Supplementary estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2023-2024, Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment, capital investment expenditures, mineral and petroleum resources, not previously authorized, $175,000. Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. This is our famous MARS, Mineral Administration Registry System. And I believe, you know, this is required to get us into online map staking. I believe to do that we got to implement the Mineral Resources Act and get the regs done. We've carried this over a number of times. Can we just have a realistic timeline of when we would actually buy the software and have online map staking in place? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of Finance.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So, Madam Chair, I understand at this point that in order to provide -- or in order to request the contract or to do the procurement, they are looking at having a completion of the Mineral Resources Act regulations. And so in order for that to be completed -- again, that is now on track to have -- to be out and gazetted and doing section 35 consultations this coming fall, which would mean that in early 2024 that that final they'd be at a procurement stage.

I do understand, Madam Chair, that there's some effort to do things parallel as much as possible in the sense of some design and planning being undertaken concurrently. Nevertheless, the actual procurement won't take place until again the Mineral Resource Act regs themselves are finalized, which again, does need to still go through the gazetting and formal consultative process this fall. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Yellowknife North.

Yeah, you know, we already approved previously a list of a bunch of software that we've carried over many times. I guess I'm very skeptical about this one getting also procured in this fiscal year. I think it's a safe bet to see it would be carried over one more time. I get you have to have the money before you go out to tender so maybe we'll squeak in at the end of this fiscal.

I guess can we get a -- there's $175,000 here. Can we get an estimate of what the total cost for this would be? I believe at one point we were looking for something a little off the shelf and then we figured out well, it's actually going to depend on what the regulations say and we may need some rather custom software for ourselves. Are we just -- do we have a cost estimate? Are we on track? I'm sure it's a lot more than $175,000. Thank you.

Thank you. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So an estimate right now would be in the range of approximately $370,000. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Yellowknife North.

Yeah. Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. Maybe I had a different number in my head. I guess, sorry, can I clarify, then, would that -- that's the first time I heard that number. Would that be, like, a licensing fee? Has something changed in the sense that it would be $370,000 annually or, yeah, can I just get some more context. Is that total, we get some custom designed software and we own it kind of thing? Thank you.