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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I definitely appreciate that, and it's something that I will follow up on with the Minister of Health and Social Services, but that's it for now. Thank you.

Thank you. Member from Inuvik Boot Lake.

Before I go to the Minister, the question that you have is pertaining to long-term -- sorry, long-term or continuing care services just two down. Is there a question that you had for administrative and support services?

Okay. Further comments from the Members? Okay, I don't see any. Okay, I'm going to go on to -- thank you. 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. Does the committee agree?

Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2023-2024, Department of Health and Social Services, capital investment expenditures, health and social services programs, not previously authorized, negative $15,109,000. Is there any questions from the committee? Let me go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can the witnesses clarify as to the previous questions asked by my colleague from Frame Lake regarding the wellness and recovery centre, what would be the dropdead date for monies to be spent for that project? Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that is something I'd have to go and look at infrastructure acquisition plan on. Right now we've been given some assurance at this stage that the federal government is prepared to be flexible on their funding and that at the current rate and with the current design, which again at this point has us tendering -- of having a final design and tender out in March, so next month, and with projects moving forward from there. On that timeline, we're not anticipating any challenges. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to Member of Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Nothing further on this item.

Thank you. Any further general comments? I'm going to go to the Member of Yellowknife -- YK North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So just a few follow-up questions to those of some of my colleagues.

So the Minister mentioned a few minutes ago that the delays in construction for the new Yellowknife Wellness and Recovery Centre were partly due to design and location issues. Has the proposed location for the new centre changed?

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, there's no change at this point. There was a lack of design capacity I understand as being part of the problem and some -- a technical completion in term -- technical completion -- completeness -- excuse me, with respect to ensuring that we had proper permitting from both the Office of the Fire Marshal and the city of Yellowknife. But they also wanted to achieve some performance targets to be -- with the National Energy Code and to be at least at 10 percent above performance targets in that respect. So some of that design work took a little bit longer but that, as I say, at this point I understand is done, complete, and we're at a stage of preparing the procurement process. Thank you.

Member from YK North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can the Minister clarify, so the federal funding that's allocated to this project, is it a percentage of the total cost or is it a set amount? Meaning if the budget increases over time due to the delays, does the federal contribution also proportionately increase or are we left to shoulder all of the -- any increases in the cost of this project due to delays? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Minister Wawzonek.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So right now it is 100 percent federally funded. But all of our projects, unfortunately, are subject to the potential for cost increases. We're not immune to inflation or high interest rates or supply chain issues or labour market issues. When that happens, the proportion of funding from the federal government does not automatically change. There are instances where we are able to go back to negotiate an increase to a budget from the federal government or to negotiate a change in the percentage. For example, on a project that's 75/25 we can maybe increase that, but it is definitely not an automatic thing. Thank you.

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

Thank you to the Minister for that clarification. And so by saying that this project is 100 percent federal funded, is federal funding expected to still cover 100 percent of the capital investment in this project, or are we looking at covering any overages in costs to this project that we didn't perhaps initially expect when we negotiated an agreement with the federal government?