Thank you. Minister of Finance.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that is going to be a key question in order to resolve this both for ourselves and the department of health. I don't have a detail of that operational plan in front of me but I, again, will certainly ensure that between myself and my colleague that we will have that ready and start to communicate that to Members and to the public. Thank you.

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

Thank you. That's everything for now. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Any further questions? Okay, I'll continue on here.

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2023-2024, Department of Finance, Office of the Comptroller General, not previously authorized $26 million. Does the committee agree?

Moving on, Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2023-2024, Department of Finance, total department, not previously authorized $32 million. Is there any questions? Does the committee agree?

Committee, we'll now consider the Department of Health and Social Services on page 7 to 9.

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2023-2024, Department of Health and Social Services, administrative and support services, not previously authorized $1,499,000. Is there any questions? I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The first item, providing funding for HRHSSA collective agreement, I recognize we're speaking to -- about one of these items, but perhaps with the chair's indulgence, I'll ask my question, which is this line item shows up in -- or sorry, this line item shows up in multiple functions within Health and Social Services. Could the Minister please clarify why that is?

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister of Finance.

Thank you. I believe, Mr. Chair -- and as I'm speaking, I'm sure a lot of people are going to start typing at me, but that it's reflective of where different employees -- this is correct. It is reflective of where the different employees provide their function within Health and Social Services or Hay River Health and Social Services. So whatever activity the individuals fall under is where the salaries get attached. So that's why you're seeing it pop up because it's a -- it was a collective agreement for the entirety of Hay River Health and Social Services but, again, it gets broken down by the divisions in which the individual employees find themselves.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I expected that would be the answer, but I just wanted to make sure. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Is there any further questions?

I'll go to the Member again from Range Lake.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I note under the agreements, some of these contributions seem very low. $4,000, Canadian chronic disease surveillance system agreement. $4,000 for epidemiology support for substance use agreements. I'm not sure what you can do with that. So I'm assuming this is multi-year agreements that are just kind of paying out. It just seems quite -- or a very limited amount of contributions. So could the Minister just explain how this money is flowing and if there's a larger pot that we're not seeing. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll move to the Minister of Finance.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, Mr. Chair, that is something that is worth highlighting as we're going through this. So this is administrative and support services. And so, yes, the agreements themselves are much larger and they include a larger sum, you know, for -- you know, for example, to actually go and do a frontline operation. But under the administrative part, it is just the portion that is allowed to be used for administrative functions. But yet, for instance, the northern wellness agreement sees a small amount here, but you will see it come back under a much larger portion under the programming function. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to the Member from Range Lake.

Thank you. Nothing further.

Any further comments -- questions? I'm going to go to the Member from Yellowknife North, YK North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, first, about the collective agreement with the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority, can the Minister confirm whether all additional salary and benefits that were negotiated as part of this agreement, the new agreement, have been costed out or whether there are elements in these agreements that are yet to be costed?

Thank you. Minister Wawzonek.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, let me put that one over to the deputy minister, please.