Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I'll be brief in this particular section. I have further details on other pages. But this one in particular, I'm curious, part of the fibre link concept and project initiative was all built around the Government of the Northwest Territories making money off this initiative. Can the Minister start with what -- are we making money off this initiative? See where it goes from there.

Thank you. I'm going to go to Minister Wawzonek.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we do make money off of the Mackenzie Valley Fibre Line. I don't have that information here with me. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member of Yellowknife Centre.

Thank you. Minister Wawzonek.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I prefer the second one as well but if it doesn't come up on the floor, I will certainly provide a note to committee updating them as to what the Mackenzie Valley Fibre does earn for the government. Thank you.

Thank you. Any further questions? Okay, no further questions. Any other Members that have questions? Okay. Thank you. Does the committee agree?

Okay, thank you. I'm going to go to Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2023-2024, Department of Finance, capital investment expenditures, total department not previously authorized, $1,253,000. Is there any questions from committee -- I mean, Members? Okay, question's been -- does the committee agree?

Thank you. Moving on, I'm going to go on to -- committee, we will -- committee, we'll now consider the Department of Health and Social Services on page 7. Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2023-2024, Department of Health and Social Services, capital investment expenditures, administrative and support services, not previously authorized, $225,000. Is there any questions? I believe we have Mr. -- from the Sahtu region.

Can the Minister explain if that went towards the purchase of materials and the foundation work that has been done? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to Minister Wawzonek.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This project has, unfortunately, seen some significant delays, and this one really is squarely at the feet of COVID-19. What occurred is that some initial work was done on the Tulita Health Centre but then when COVID-19 struck, unfortunately, the community was, you know, obviously taking into consideration the safety of their members and didn't want to be bringing in some of the experts and construction crews that were required to support the capacity in the community. As such, the contractor then wasn't in a position to advance the project, and it's now is delayed approximately three years. And that is the reason for the negative appropriation because the timing of it is such that in this fiscal year, the project didn't get to the point of requiring those funds. That said, I can say that there's been some work -- and coupled with that -- Mr. Chair, coupled with that there's now, of course as with so many other things, between inflation and rising costs of projects and materials, there's been an increase in the project costs. So that's required us to go back and just re-examine how this is going to go forward and work with the contractor to confirm that they can proceed. And that's where I can say that it is expected at this point that we are in a position to get going and get back to this as of this spring. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member of Sahtu.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thanks for the response. That provides clarity to that. I know for a fact that the government, through one of the departments, have did inventory audits on the materials, particularly the wooden materials that are staged at the Tulita airstrip in behind the fenced compound. And I'm just wondering if the project is going to need more money for deteriorated lumber? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to Minister Wawzonek.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I have some information that I was referring to with respect to challenges just in terms of the labour force capacity. I don't have information about specific materials that may have degraded although that's certainly -- it seems like it's a possibility, and I will go back to the department just to make sure that they have considered that when they're coming back up with what the new cost estimates might be. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member of Sahtu.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Those are the only questions I got. I appreciate the Minister's response to going back to check on the quality of the material. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from YK Centre.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Although the Member asked some good questions, the Member previous for the Sahtu, but the -- just one aspect is -- the Minister can respond to this if she wishes, but I would hope that the department or the government at large would be acting with the greatest of diligence to ensure that that material is protected from elements and sticky fingers to ensure that that is ready and available so that community isn't denied the work and projects that they need when they're ready to do it.

On a separate note, specific to the line item under administrative and support services, now I can appreciate the net impact on government is nil, I'm just curious on how many people were -- just out of curiosity, how many people is this so-called database program supporting? It says it's designed for professional licensing and office so I mean -- yeah, we'll start with that.

Thank you. I'm going to go to Minister Wawzonek.