Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the long-term care facilities, you know -- and I hear where the Member is coming from. We do spend a lot of specialized out of territory based-care for our residents in the Northwest Territories. The thing with that, it's not space in the territory. Like, we don't -- but it's the specialty that they require of care. And long-term care, the levels of care that we provide in our long-term care facilities, you know, depending on where -- you know, if you're in Inuvik, there's only a certain level of care that is able to be provided. In, you know -- and then we have different levels, like in the dementia centre here in Yellowknife, that's a different level of care. But the -- and a lot of the clients that are out of the territory require multiple different specialties that they require. And the staff that we -- you know, we're not saying we don't have the staff, but we don't have the staff capacity to be able to provide all of the needs to many of those clients. Saying that, you know, we will -- we continuously reassess what services and how many people that we could potentially bring back to the territory and what those might look like and what those numbers are, I couldn't answer that here today, because those clients, you know, it's -- although they've been away for a long time, their needs change and so we would have to reassess every client on a case by case to see whether or not our services in the territory could meet their needs. Thank you.
Lesa Semmler on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 29th, 2024
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