Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I want to be clear. Diabetes is a disease on its own. Kidney disease is a separate disease. It affects the kidneys and it's not -- you know, it's not the same. So although we have -- you know, on one hand we have lots of people with diabetes and, yes, we do need -- and we have those supports in all the communities, like the testing, the medication. But for dialysis, you know, there's other options as well. Like, there's peritoneal dialysis, which we do have I think three patients in the territory. They don't have to move to Yellowknife because of the level that they can do that at home and they're supported by -- to do that. So that's why I said I would commit to -- you know, to try to figure out how many people in the Beaufort Delta have kidney disease and if they are -- you know, how many are stage 4/5 that may require dialysis.
In the near future if we have a whole bunch of people that are, you know, coming towards needing dialysis in the future, then that would be something that we can look at. It's not just a machine. It is staffing, and it would have to require staffing and a facility. And the Member knows our facility in Inuvik is -- there's not any space in that facility. So, you know, we'd have to figure that out. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.